Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Warnings in 2001
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 26, 2001, 7:53 PM MDT for Yellowstone County, Montana. It was in force for 37 min. 5 reports 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 26, 2001, 7:53 PM MDT (01:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2001, 8:30 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yellowstone County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 8:20 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Billings Hgts, MT | Golf ball size hail in western Alkali Creek |
| Jun 26, 8:25 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 62 M | Billings Logan Arpt, MT | |
| Jun 26, 8:35 PM MDT | Hail 1.75 | Billings, MT | Golf ball size hail |
| Jun 26, 8:35 PM MDT | Hail 1 | Laurel, MT | |
| Jun 26, 8:35 PM MDT | Hail 1.25 | Laurel, 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 26, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 2153 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS55 KBYZ 270153 TORBIL MTC111-270230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 753 PM MDT TUE JUN 26 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... WEST CENTRAL YELLOWSTONE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA * UNTIL 830 PM MDT * AT 746 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 8 MILES SOUTH OF ACTON...OR ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF BILLINGS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF... WESTERN YELLOWSTONE COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WARNING REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE SAME AREA. $$ LAT...LON 4583 10891 4571 10871 4594 10839 4609 10864
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 7:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 8:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carbon, Stillwater | 20 min |
| Jun 26, 8:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Musselshell, Yellowstone | 35 min |
| Jun 26, 9:00 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 9:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 2 hr |
| Jun 26, 9:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 9:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 9:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 11:17 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 58 min |
| Jun 27, 2:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Fallon | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 35 min |
| Jun 27, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Fallon | 61 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.