Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 848
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 6, 2003, 4:50 PM MDT for 10 counties in Montana. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 6, 2003, 4:50 PM MDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2003, 10:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
Counties Blaine County, MT, Broadwater County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Meagher County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 138 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:53 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 5:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 39 min |
| Aug 6, 5:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 51 min |
| Aug 6, 5:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 54 min |
| Aug 6, 5:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 60 min |
| 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, 7:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley | 63 min |
| Aug 6, 8:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell | 55 min |
| Aug 6, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, Phillips, Valley | 60 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -474 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2186 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 1:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Deer Lodge, Granite, Jefferson, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Mineral and 5 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beaverhead, Cascade, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Glacier, Granite and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Daniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Phillips and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 5:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaverhead, Cascade, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Glacier, Granite and 12 more | 2 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.