Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2001, 12:53 PM MDT for Daniels County, Roosevelt County, Montana. It was in force for 52 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 20, 2001, 12:53 PM MDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 2001, 1:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Daniels County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 1:00 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Peerless, 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 20, 12:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -349 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2123 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS55 KGGW 201853 SVRGGW MTC019-085-201945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 1253 PM MDT FRI JUL 20 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... DANIELS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA WESTERN ROOSEVELT COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA * UNTIL 145 PM MDT * AT 1250 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES SOUTH OF PEERLESS...OR ABOUT 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SCOBEY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SCOBEY BY 130 PM MDT MADOC BY 140 PM MDT LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...AND HEAVY RAINFALL ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A STURDY BUILDING UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. PREPARE TO MOVE TO A PLACE OF SA FETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED. .END 79
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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 20, 9:00 AM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 20, 9:00 AM MDT, 3 hours 53 minutes before
NORTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
900 AM MDT FRI JUL 20 2001
...NO CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECAST...
STORMS ARE STARTING EARLY AGAIN TODAY AGAIN WITH SEVERE WEATHER
PARAMETERS IN PLACE AS WELL. NEW ETA 500MB VORT PATTERN INDICATING THIS
FIRST ROUND WILL GO THROUGH HERE OVER THE NEXT 2 TO 4 HOURS...WITH MAYBE
A RE-FIRE LATER IN THE AFTERNOON/EVENING. SPC/S MODERATE RISK LOOKS
GOOD. A SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT HAS BEEN ISSUED IN ANTICIPATION
OF THE VOLATILE CONDITIONS EXPECTED FOR TODAY. JAMBA
EXTENDED...MID RANGE MODELS SUGGESTING SLIGHT SHIFT IN PATTERN WITH
BASE OF PACIFIC TROF CUTTING OFF AND FLOW ACROSS NORTHERN TIER OF
STATE BECOMING MORE ZONAL UNDER OMEGA BLOCK OVER CANADA. WITH FLOW
TURNING WEST SHOULD CUT OFF MOISTURE FEED OVER THE MOUNTAINS FOR
DRIER PATTERN FOR EASTERN MONTANA BY MID WEEK. ONLY CHANGE TO
EXTENDED WILL BE TO ADD SATURDAY NIGHT PERIOD TO EMPHASIZE CHANGE OF
THUNDERSTORMS THAT NIGHT. EBERT
KGGW /083 062/088 064/085 057/082 058/083 058/083 058/084
TTTTTBT 90543/9033323
KGDV /085 065/089 064/085 060/084 060/084 060/084 057/085
TTTTTBT 90543/9033323In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 20, 8:40 AM MDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before
MTZ016>027-059>062-202200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 840 AM MDT FRI JUL 20 2001 ...A GOOD CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA TODAY... A MOIST...UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN PLACE ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA COMBINED WITH AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE PUSHING ACROSS THE AREA TODAY WILL BRING THUNDERSTORMS...SOME OF THEM SEVERE. ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BRING LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN. THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL STARTED THIS MORNING AND WILL LIKELY LAST INTO THE EVENING HOURS TONIGHT. ANYONE WITH OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES PLANNED TODAY SHOULD LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR ANOTHER MEDIA OUTLET...TO KEEP POST ED ON ANY WATCHES OR WARNINGS THAT MAY BE ISSUED TODAY. THIS INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE OBTAINED FROM OUR WEB SITE AT: HTTP://WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/GLASGOW TFJ
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 7:38 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Wibaux | 67 min |
| Jul 20, 9:22 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 53 min |
| Jul 20, 11:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 58 min |
| Jul 20, 12:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 1:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 61 min |
| Jul 20, 1:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 2:49 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Phillips | 56 min |
| Jul 20, 3:25 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Valley | 65 min |
| Jul 20, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Phillips | 45 min |
| Jul 20, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Garfield, Valley | 60 min |
| Jul 20, 5:16 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | McCone | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 5:27 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Daniels | 63 min |
| Jul 20, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Garfield | 60 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.