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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 174, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 28, 2001Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2001, 7:20 PM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 70 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 2001, 7:20 PM MDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 2001, 8:30 PM MDT
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 28, 3:00 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 481 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2001-07-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1259 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2001-07-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1276 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
5.5

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips62 min
Jul 28, 9:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWValley70 min
Jul 29, 12:03 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels57 min
Jul 29, 12:43 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.