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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 15, 2003Prairie County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT for Prairie County, Montana. It was in force for 60 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
Jun 15, 2003, 2:45 PM MDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2003, 3:45 PM MDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Prairie County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 176 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 15, 2:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 177 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2003-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 64 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 12:00Z on 2003-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 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
64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-135 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1294 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
157 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 15, 2:10 PM MDT, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 2:10 PM MDT, 35 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:57 AM MDT, 8 hours 48 minutes before
MTZ016>027-059>062-161200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
557 AM MDT SUN JUN 15 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA

.DAY ONE...
LOOK FOR ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHEAST
MONTANA TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE THAT A FEW OF
THESE STORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH
LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 3:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPrairie64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003

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.