Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 18, 2001, 1:59 AM MDT for Custer County, Montana. It was in force for 31 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 18, 2001, 1:59 AM MDT (07:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 18, 2001, 2:30 AM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Custer County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 2:10 AM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Miles City, MT |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 18, 1:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 232 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2571 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 17, 8:42 PM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 8:42 PM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
842 PM MDT SUN JUN 17 2001
.MON AND TUE...
NO UPDATES NEEDED TONIGHT. VIGOROUS SHORTWAVE ENTERING WESTERN MONTANA
WILL PUSH ACROSS EASTERN MONTANA TONIGHT. NEW ETA HITTING THE QPF HARD
ACROSS MOST AREAS THROUGH 12Z...WITH STRONG LIFT AFTER 06Z. CURRENTLY
IN THE WEST...CONVECTION SPREADING FROM THE SOUTHWEST COVERING MOST
COUNTIES WEST OF BILLINGS. TO THE EAST...AIRMASS UNSTABLE...BUT CAPPED
OUT WITH SOME WEAK ELEVATED CONVECTION ABOVE CAP. CAP SHOULD BREAK LATER
TONIGHT AFTER DYNAMICS ARRIVE. ALREADY HAD ONE SEVERE STORM TONIGHT...
AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE MORE TONIGHT. WILL TAKE A WAIT AND SEE
APPROACH TO ANY WEATHER WATCHES...PER COORDINATION WITH SPC. SCARLETT
.WED...THU...FRI...SAT...SUN...
SHOWERS WILL LINGER ACROSS SOUTHEAST MONTANA TUESDAY NIGHT AND
WEDNESDAY AS A SHORTWAVE IN NORTHWEST FLOW AFFECTS THAT AREA. AFTER
THAT...A STRONG UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL BUILD OVER MONTANA...BRINGING
HOT AND DRY WEATHER TO THE AREA THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THE RIDGE AXIS
WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN MONTANA SATURDAY AND INTO THE DAKOTAS SUNDAY...
ALLOWING THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE AREA WEST OF THE AXIS.
MIDDENDORF
MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN
-----------------------------------------------------------
BIL 050/069 047/070 049/078 055/086 059/092 060/090 060/088
73/T 22/W 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/T
LVM 045/067 043/070 043/077 048/085 052/089 055/088 053/085
83/T 32/W 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/T
HDN 048/070 045/071 045/082 051/089 055/095 057/094 057/092
73/T 22/W 00/U 00/U 00/U 03/T 33/T
MLS 054/064 048/073 049/077 055/087 059/092 062/094 062/094
66/T 40/B 32/W 00/U 00/U 02/B 23/T
4BQ 053/063 047/072 047/075 053/085 057/090 060/092 060/092
66/T 40/B 32/W 00/U 00/U 02/B 23/T
BHK 052/062 046/071 045/075 050/085 055/090 058/092 058/092
66/T 40/B 32/W 00/U 00/U 02/B 23/T
SHR 048/071 043/072 043/077 048/085 052/091 055/091 055/089
63/T 20/B 00/U 00/U 00/Uq 03/T 33/TIn the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 17, 9:03 PM MDT, 4 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS, MT
903 PM MDT SUN JUN 17 2001
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0713 PM ABSAROKEE MT 1.25 INCH HAIL
06/17/01 STILLWATER HAILSTORM LASTED FROM 705
PM TO 713 PM.
0721 PM 7 S COLUMBUS MT 1.00 INCH HAIL
06/17/01 STILLWATER
JRSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 62 min |
| Jun 17, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carbon | 24 min |
| Jun 18, 12:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Treasure | 49 min |
| Jun 18, 12:44 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 1:30 AM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Custer, Rosebud | 30 min |
| Jun 18, 1:49 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 41 min |
| Jun 18, 2:26 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 64 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.