Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 13, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jul 19, 2001, 7:30 PM MDT for Fallon County, Montana. It was in force for 30 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
- Jul 19, 2001, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 2001, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fallon County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:55 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Baker, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 667 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1843 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -52 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -2.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBYZ 200130 TORBIL MTC025-200200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 730 PM MDT THU JUL 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN FALLON COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BAKER * UNTIL 800 PM MDT * AT 723 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER BAKER...OR ABOUT 3 MILES WEST OF BAKER... MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... EASTERN FALLON COUNTY GO TO THE BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR! THIS WARNING REPLACES THE PREVIOUS% WARNING FOR FALLON COUNTY. $$ SCARLETT LAT...LON 4639 10449 4626 10430 4627 10407 4666 10413
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 6:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 6:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Stillwater, Yellowstone | 35 min |
| Jul 19, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Fallon | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 6:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell | 54 min |
| Jul 19, 7:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Wheatland | 31 min |
| Jul 19, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell, Yellowstone | 63 min |
| Jul 19, 8:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Treasure | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 4:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 67 min |
Nearby
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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.