Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT for Richland County, Montana. It was in force for 40 min. 2 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 10, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2001, 7:40 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 7:10 PM MDT | Hail 0.75 | Fairview, MT | |
| Jun 10, 7:25 PM MDT | Hail 0.88 | Fairview, 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 nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 hours before the alert went out and 312 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
- 493 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -60 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.7
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 Glasgow, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 10, 2:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 10, 2:25 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
NORTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
225 PM MDT SUN JUN 10 2001
CU STARTING TO FORM OFF THE FRONT RANGE AND MOVING OUT INTO CENTRAL
MONTANA AS 70+ KT JET PUSHES INTO SOUTHERN ALBERTA. WEAK DEW POINT
FRONT SET UP ALONG THE MISSOURI RIVER ACROSS EASTERN MONTANA WITH
DEW POINTS IN THE 50S SOUTH AND IN THE 40S NORTH. EXPECT THIS FRONT
TO BE A FOCUS FOR CONVECTION MOVING OUT OF THE MOUNTAINS THIS
AFTERNOON AND INTO THIS EVENING. WILL ADD MENTION OF SEVERE STORMS
TO SOUTHERN ZONES AS FRONT PROGGED TO SAG SOUTHWARD OVERNIGHT AS
COLD FRONT PUSHES THROUGH THE STATE. TAIL OF COLD FRONT DROPS INTO
NORTHERN WYOMING LEAVING HIGH PRESSURE OVER STATE ON MONDAY. UPPER
LOW ROTATES INTO PACIFIC NORTHWEST MONDAY NIGHT PUSHING FRONT
NORTHWARD AS A WARM FRONT AND SETTING UP AN OVERRUNNING SITUATION.
MODELS SIMILAR WITH EVOLVING LOW EXCEPT THAT ETA IS WEAKER AND
FURTHER SOUTH THAN AVN. FAVORING THE AVN ATTM BUT BOTH MODELS SPREAD
RAIN INTO SOUTHERN CWA MONDAY NIGHT AND ACROSS ENTIRE CWA TUESDAY.
HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES LOWERING ALONG WITH CLOUDS AND RAIN TO COOL
TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD. EBERT
EXTENDED...LOOKS LIKE A WET WEEK SETTING UP FOR NEMONT. ALL MODELS
IN AGREEMENT WITH PLACING UPR LOW OVER SC MT OR NRN WY ON WED. SFC
LOW DEVLPS UNDER DIVERGENCE ALOFT SOMEWHERE OVER ERN MT OR WRN
DAKOTAS WITH BIG OVER RUNNING PRECIP SHIELD OVER NEMONT...
REMINISCENT OF THE 2 DAY/2 INCH DELUGE OF LAST WEEK. NOT EXPECTING
QUITE AS MUCH PRECIP BUT NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. UPR LOW TAKING
IT/S TIME MOVING OUT SO SHOWERS REMAIN IN FCST THU WITH NEW S/WAVE
AND SHOWERS FOR FRI AND SAT. SUN LOOKS LIKE THE BEST CHC FOR A DRY
DAY. WRIGHT
KGGW 051/072 048/066 050/058 050/060 050/066 052/068 047/071
BTRWWWB 903136/9585432
KGDV 054/074 048/068 048/058 048/061 051/066 050/069 045/071
BTRWWWB 903136/9585442The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 6:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Richland | 54 min |
| Jun 11, 1:14 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, Wibaux | 31 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.