Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 474
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 27, 2001, 7:30 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2001, 7:30 PM MDT (01:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 28, 2001, 1:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Blaine County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Hill County, MT, Petroleum County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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Warnings issued inside it
5 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 9:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus, Judith Basin | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 10:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus, Judith Basin | 45 min |
| Jun 27, 11:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus, Judith Basin | 46 min |
| Jun 28, 12:14 AM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Fergus, Judith Basin | 4 hr |
| Jun 28, 12:34 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 41 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 148 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
- 1392 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2183 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 5.5
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Horn, Carbon, Custer, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Powder River and 6 more | 6 hr |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.