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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 124, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2002, 3:18 PM MDT for Richland County, Montana. It was in force for 42 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 16, 2002, 3:18 PM MDT (21:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 4:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Richland County, MT
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 3:22 PM MDT | Thunderstorm Wind 54 M | Sidney Richland Arpt, MT | 63 mph wind reported at the Sidney Richland County Airport. The wind downed a street light and 12 inch diameter trees in Sidney. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 12:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 176 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 16, 3:12 PM MDT, 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 3:12 PM MDT, 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Roosevelt | 55 min |
| Aug 16, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 58 min |
| Aug 16, 3:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Wibaux | 39 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.