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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 182, NWS Glasgow, MT

August 12, 2001Roosevelt County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 12, 2001, 5:59 PM MDT for Roosevelt County, Montana. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 12, 2001, 5:59 PM MDT (23:59 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Roosevelt County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 12, 6:20 PM MDTHail 0.75Culbertson, 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 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 Aug 12, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 12, 2:10 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before
NORTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
210 PM MDT SUN AUG 12 2001

THERMAL RIDGE MOVING ACROSS MONTANA OVER THE NEXT TWO DAY FOR
CONTINUED HOT WEATHER. SHORTWAVE TROF LIFTING OUT OF GREAT BASIN
RESPONSIBLE FOR SHIFTING RIDGE AXIS EAST AND WILL ALSO BRING A
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TO THE REGION MAINLY MONDAY NIGHT AND
TUESDAY. MODELS COMING INTO AGREEMENT WITH SPLITTING THE WAVE AS IT
MOVES INTO IDAHO. A FEW TIMING DIFFERENCES BUT ONE PORTION SHEARS
EASTWARD ACROSS WYOMING UNDER THE RIDGE TONIGHT AND MONDAY. SECOND
PORTION OF WAVE MOVES NORTH THROUGH IDAHO UNTIL ENCOUNTERING STRONG
NORTHWESTERLY FLOW TO PUSH IT EAST ALONG INTERNATIONAL BORDER MONDAY
NIGHT AND TUESDAY. THIS SECOND WAVE WILL BRING COLD FRONT ACROSS
STATE TUESDAY PROVIDING FOCUS AND TRIGGER FOR THUNDERSTORMS. EBERT

EXTENDED...NW FLOW ALOFT OVER ERN MT WITH RIDGE AXIS NEAR
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE ON WED WILL TRANSITION TO RIDGING ALOFT OVER ERN
MT BY THE WEEKEND. 12Z AVN APPEARS TO BE SLOWER IN BRINGING THE
RIDGE EAST THAN THE 00Z MRF AND KEEPS ERN MT IN NW FLOW ALOFT INTO
FRI. WITH A GENERAL LACK OF SHORTWAVES THROUGH THE PERIOD...WILL
FORECAST DRY FOR THE ENTIRE EXTENDED.  FORRESTER

KGGW 058/091 063/087 054/075 048/082 054/084 056/086 055/086
      UTNBBBB  900133/7921122
KGDV 061/093 063/088 055/075 047/080 051/084 056/086 055/086
      UTNBBBB  900133/7921111

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 12, 4:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt61 min
Aug 12, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan61 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.