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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2005, 10:50 PM MDT for Daniels 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
- Jun 22, 2005, 10:50 PM MDT (04:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2005, 11:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Daniels County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 3:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 403 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
- 403 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2494 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
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 22, 8:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 8:35 PM MDT, 2 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 835 PM MDT WED JUN 22 2005 .SHORT TERM...FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY... MINOR UPDATES TONIGHT WITH FORECAST ALREADY ON TRACK. ANOTHER ROUND OF SEVERE WEATHER SHAPING UP THIS EVENING WITH COLD FRONT STILL SCHEDULED TO SLIDE THROUGH THE REGION OVERNIGHT. ADJUSTED SKY COVER BASED ON CURRENT OBS AND EXPECTED TRACK OF STORMS OVERNIGHT. EVERYTHING ELSE LOOKED GOOD SO NO OTHER CHANGES NEEDED. JAZ ...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION... SHORTWAVE TROF PUSHING ACROSS THE BC COAST AND WILL SWING THROUGH WESTERN CANADA ON THURSDAY. COOLER...MORE WESTERLY FLOW FOR FRIDAY AS THIS TROF MOVES EAST. TONIGHT...SHORTWAVE DRIVING NORTH FROM NEVADA ALREADY SPAWNING THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS NORTHERN UTAH AND SOUTHERN WYOMING. LOW LEVELS CONTINUE TO DRY OUT WITH DEW POINTS FALLING THROUGH THE 50S ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION. WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE 90S WILL HAVE DEEP INVERTED-V PROFILES WITH STEEP MID LEVEL LAPSE RATES. AS SHORTWAVE MOVES NORTH AND WITH APPROACH OF WEAK COLD FRONT FROM THE WEST...HAVE POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS WITH SOME DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OVERNIGHT. THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...SHORTWAVE MOVES ACROSS CENTRAL CANADA WITH HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING INTO MONTANA. UPPER FLOW TURNS WEST TO SLIGHTLY NORTHWEST DURING THE PERIOD BRINGING COOLER AND DRIER WEATHER TO THE REGION FOR A BREAK FROM THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. EBERT .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY... MODELS KEEP US UNDER A SW FLOW ALOFT WITH AVERAGE 500 MB HEIGHTS. AT LEAST A COUPLE OF SHORTWAVES NOTED...BUT THE GENERAL IMPRESSION OF THE PATTERN IS THAT SLIGHT CHANCES OF EVENING THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEEDED MOST VERY DAY. LATEST 12Z GFS DRIVES THE PERSISTENT UPPER TROUGH ALONG THE WEST COAST AGGRESSIVELY INLAND. THIS IS IN OPPOSITION TO PREVIOUS RUNS AND OTHER MODELS SO WILL NOT GO WITH THIS SOLUTION. 500 THICKNESSES CLIMB WELL PAST 570 DM THIS WEEKEND ASSOCIATED WITH A BROAD THERMAL LOW FORMING OVER MT. 500 MB HEIGHTS NOT ALL THAT HIGH...INDICATIVE OF STRONG LOW LEVEL WARM ADVECTION. THIS OFTEN MEANS WARMER HIGHS THAN FORECAST AND HAVE RAISED WEEKEND HIGHS AROUND 5 DEGREES. OTHERWISE...NO CHANGES PLANNED. SIMONSEN && AVIATION... SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ALREADY POPPING UP ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT SHIFTS THROUGH THE AREA. ANY OF THE TAF SITES MAY BE IMPACTED BY ACTIVITY. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS ARE THE BIGGEST THREAT WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT. MOSTLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED...BUT STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY DROP SITE TO IFR WITH STRONG VARIABLE AND GUSTY WINDS. THREAT WILL DIMINISH BY MORNING WITH A RETURN TO VFR. HOWEVER...NORTHWEST WINDS WILL BE SOMEWHAT STRONG BEHIND THE COLD FRONT TO AROUND 20 KTS SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS TO 30 KTS. JAZ && .GLASGOW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 512 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM WEDNESDAY FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST MONTANA. && WEATHER.GOV/GLASGOW
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 22, 4:04 PM MDT, 6 hours 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 404 PM MDT WED JUN 22 2005 MTZ016>027-059>062-231200- CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY- DANIELS-SHERIDAN-WESTERN ROOSEVELT-PETROLEUM-GARFIELD-MCCONE- RICHLAND-DAWSON-PRAIRIE-WIBAUX-NORTHERN PHILLIPS- SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS-NORTHERN VALLEY-EASTERN ROOSEVELT- 404 PM MDT WED JUN 22 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM THIS EVENING FOR MOST OF NORTHEAST MONTANA. DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE IN ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER 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
Local storm report, Jun 22, 8:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 10 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
840 PM MDT WED JUN 22 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0755 PM TSTM WND GST 7 N COHAGEN 47.16N 106.59W
06/22/2005 40 MPH GARFIELD MT TRAINED SPOTTER
4 INCH DIAMETER TREE BRANCH DOWN
&&
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Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 7:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 55 min |
| Jun 22, 8:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 9:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Phillips, Valley | 62 min |
| Jun 22, 10:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.