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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Glasgow, MT

August 9, 2003Phillips County, Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2003, 10:42 AM MDT for Phillips County, Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 63 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 9, 2003, 10:42 AM MDT (16:42 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2003, 11:45 AM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Phillips County, MT, Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 9, 9:55 AM MDT, 47 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 9:55 AM MDT, 47 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 6:06 AM MDT, 4 hours 36 minutes before
MTZ016>027-059>062-101200-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
606 AM MDT SAT AUG 9 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA

.DAY ONE...
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA EARLY THIS MORNING.
THEN ANOTHER ROUND OF THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS NORTHEAST
MONTANA FROM LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING. SOME OF THESE
THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE WITH STRONG WIND GUSTS.

.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.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 9, 6:27 AM MDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before
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Local storm report, Aug 9, 7:47 AM MDT, 2 hours 55 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 8, 9:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield59 min
Aug 9, 11:53 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWValley52 min
Aug 9, 2:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan55 min
Aug 9, 3:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan60 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.