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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Glasgow, MT

August 7, 2003Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2003, 2:50 AM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 55 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: Aug 7, 2003, 2:50 AM MDT (08:50 UTC)
Expired: Aug 7, 2003, 3:45 AM MDT
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Glasgow, MT
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:54 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 nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 29 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -218 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3137 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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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 Aug 6, 8:05 PM MDT, 6 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 6, 8:05 PM MDT, 6 hours 45 minutes before

NORTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
805 PM MDT WED AUG 6 2003

.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT
CURRENT FORECAST APPEARS TO BE IN VERY GOOD SHAPE. WILL UPDATE ONLY
TO UP THE POPS IN VALLEY COUNTY TO CHANCE GIVEN THE LINE OF STORMS
THAT ARE READY TO MOVE IN. HAVE ALSO TWEAKED THE WIND DOWN A BIT IN
SOME AREAS. WILL LEAVE LAKE WIND ADVISORY UP...BUT CAN SEE
POTENTIALLY TAKING IT DOWN LATER THIS EVENING AS WIND BEHIND THE
LINE MUCH LESS THAN AHEAD OF IT. SEVERE STORMS WILL HAVE A TUFFER
TIME MAINTAINING THEMSELVES AS THEY MOVE EAST INTO A LESS FAVORABLE
ENVIRONMENT.  VALONE

OVERALL LONGWAVE PATTERN DOESNT CHANGE MUCH WITH UPPER LOW OFF WEST
COAST BEING REINFORCD...AN STRRONG UPPER HIGH OVER SW STATES
STRONGLY RIDGING NORTH AND NOT MOVING. THEREFORE WILL RAISE HIGHS
AND GO WITH A PERSISTENTLY HOT FORECAST. WILL KEEP BROADBRUSH
ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS FRIDAY. ALL MOS PERSISTENTLY TOO
CLOUDY...COOL...AND WET FOR THIS PATTERN AND TIME OF YEAR. SIMONSEN

.LONG TERM...FRI NIGHT THRU MON...
SAME AS ABOVE. MORE OF THE SAME AND HAVE RAISED TEMPERATURES WITH
GENERALLY HOT AND DRY WEATHER. SIMONSEN

KGGW BBB 066/096 065/097 063/095 78302220
     BBBB 063/095 062/095 062/091 062/088 8200000000
KGDV BBB 065/099 066/100 065/097 78022220
     BBBB 065/097 064/096 063/091 063/090 8200000000

.GGW...LAKE WIND ADVISORY FOR FORT PECK LAKE TONIGHT.

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 6, 5:14 PM MDT, 9 hours 36 minutes before

MTZ016>027-059>062-072315-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
514 PM MDT WED AUG 6 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA

DAY ONE...

A LAKE WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR FORT PECK LAKE THIS
TONIGHT. REFER TO GTFNPWGGW OR WWUS75 KGGW FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION.

ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE OVER NORTHEAST MONTANA
BEGINNING THIS EVENING IN WESTERN SECTIONS...PHILLIPS AND PETROLEUM
COUNTIES...SPREADING TO EASTERN SECTIONS OF NORTHEAST MONTANA LATE
TONIGHT. THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THE STORMS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY
WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL CONTINUE TO BRING THE SLIGHT RISK
FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO NORTHEAST MONTANA ON THURSDAY. STRONG
GUSTY WINDS AND LARGE HAIL WILL REMAIN THE BIGGEST THREAT FROM ANY
SEVERE STORMS THAT DEVELOP IN THE AREA ON THURSDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

SIMONSEN

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 6, 9:30 PM MDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
0930 PM MDT WED AUG 06 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0851 PM    35 SW GLASGOW             MT   85 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/06/03   VALLEY

Local storm report, Aug 6, 9:45 PM MDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 6, 10:06 PM MDT, 4 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 6, 10:39 PM MDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before

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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
1040 AM MDT WED AUG 6 2003

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF EASTERN MONTANA ALLOWED
TO EXPIRE AT 10 PM...

THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE LEVELS ACROSS MOST OF THE
AREA. ALTHOUGH ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS REMAIN POSSIBLE...AREAL
COVERAGE IS NOT EXPECTED TO REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL WATCH.

VALONE

Local storm report, Aug 6, 11:01 PM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
1101 PM MDT WED AUG 06 2003

TIME(MDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1039 PM    13 E JORDAN               MT   60 MPH TSTORM WIND
08/06/03   GARFIELD

Local storm report, Aug 7, 1:49 AM MDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 6, 6:14 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Phillips	61 min
Aug 6, 7:16 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Phillips	59 min
Aug 6, 8:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley	63 min
Aug 6, 8:30 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield, Phillips, Valley	60 min
Aug 6, 9:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield	57 min
Aug 6, 9:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Valley	61 min
Aug 6, 10:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield	62 min
Aug 6, 10:30 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GGW	Garfield	60 min
Aug 6, 11:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield	55 min
Aug 6, 11:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Dawson, McCone	52 min
Aug 7, 12:15 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Garfield, Valley	60 min
Aug 7, 12:53 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Dawson	67 min
Aug 7, 1:25 AM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Richland, Wibaux	65 min
Aug 7, 5:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Petroleum	62 min
Aug 7, 5:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Phillips	57 min

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.