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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT

May 23, 2006Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this flash flood warning at May 23, 2006, 4:56 PM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 23, 2006, 4:56 PM MDT (22:56 UTC)
Expired
May 23, 2006, 8:00 PM MDT
In force
3 hr
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 22:56 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 481 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2006-05-23Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 330 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 12:00Z on 2006-05-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
330 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-421 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1542 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
10 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at May 23, 1:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 23, 1:55 PM MDT, 3 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
155 PM MDT TUE MAY 23 2006

.SHORT TERM...FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA...TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY...
POSSIBILITY OF AN ACTIVE EVENING ACROSS THE EASTERN ZONES WITH SOME
STRONG STORMS AND POSSIBLY A SEVERE STORM OR TWO.  A NICE RIDGE
BUILDS BACK INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY TO DRY THINGS
OUT.  SOUTHWEST FLOW TO RE-ESTABLISH ACROSS THE AREA THURSDAY FOR
POSSIBLE LATE DAY AND EVENING STORMS.

TONIGHT...A COMPACT SYSTEM IS VISIBLE ON SATELLITE WRAPPING UP ALONG
THE MT/WY/SD BORDER.  THE LOW WILL SLOWLY MOVE OFF INTO THE
EASTERN DAKOTAS LATE TONIGHT.  THE SYSTEM LOOKS A BIT SLOWER THAN
EARLIER MODEL RUNS WHICH WILL NECESSITATE BEEFING UP THE POPS A
BIT FOR TONIGHT ACROSS OUR EASTERN ZONES. THE MOST UNSTABLE AIR
LATE THIS AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING LOOKS TO BE ACROSS THE NORTHEAST
ZONES WHERE THE LATEST LAPS ANALYSIS HAS LIS OF -3C AND ABOUT
2100 J/KG OF CAPE...WITH THE ATMOSPHERE BECOMING MORE STABLE BACK
TO THE WEST. SPECIAL 18Z KGGW SOUNDING HAD AN LI OF -4C AND JUST
UNDER 1000 J/KG OF CAPE ABOVE THE LFC. IT WOULD APPEAR THAT AREAS
EAST OF GLASGOW WOULD STAND THE BEST CHANCE OF A FEW STRONG
STORMS...AND POSSIBLY A SEVERE STORM OR TWO ACROSS OUR EASTERN
MOST ZONES. THE THREAT OF ANY SEVERE WEATHER SHOULD COME TO AN END
BY MID-EVENING...BUT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY LINGER ACROSS
OUR EASTERN ZONES A GOOD PART OF THE NIGHT. AT THE SURFACE AN AREA
OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS OUR SOUTHEAST ZONES EARLY THIS AFTERNOON
WILL LIFT NORTHEAST AND INTO CENTRAL NORTH DAKOTA LATE TONIGHT.
THE STRONGER NORTHWEST WIND ACROSS FORT PECK LAKE WILL DIMINISH
THIS EVENING...BUT SHOULD REMAIN ON THE STRONG SIDE ACROSS OUR
EASTERN ZONES OVERNIGHT WITH A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN
THE LOW AND A SURFACE RIDGE BUILDING INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES.

WEDNESDAY...THE UPPER LOW MOVES OFF INTO MINNESOTA.  AN UPPER RIDGE
WILL BUILD ACROSS THE AREA IN THE WAKE OF THE LOW AS YET ANOTHER
UPPER LOW WAITS IN THE WINGS OFF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST.  THE
SURFACE RIDGE IN THE NORTHERN ROCKIES WILL WEAKEN A BIT AS IT SLIDES
INTO CENTRAL MONTANA DOWN INTO THE CENTRAL ROCKIES.  ALTHOUGH THE
WIND AT 850MB AND PRESSURE GRADIENT SLOWLY WEAKEN DURING THE
DAY...STEEP LAPSE RATES SHOULD BE ABLE TO EFFICIENTLY MIX THE WIND
ALOFT TO THE SURFACE...AND ANOTHER LAKE WIND ADVISORY WILL VERY
LIKELY BE NEEDED...ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE EASTERN HALF OF THE LAKE.
AS THERE IS ALREADY A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS
EVENING WILL NOT MUDDY THE WATERS JUST YET WITH ANOTHER ADVISORY AND
DEFER TO THE NIGHT SHIFT FOR THE NEXT ADVISORY.  THE ATMOSPHERE
SHOULD BEGIN TO QUICKLY DECOUPLE TOWARD SUNSET AND THE WIND SHOULD
QUICKLY SLACKEN OFF TOWARD EVENING.

WED NIGHT & THURSDAY...THE UPPER LOW OFF THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST
WILL SLOWLY TRACK TO THE SOUTHEAST AND THE UPPER RIDGE ACROSS THE
AREA WEDNESDAY WILL SLOWLY GET NUDGED EAST.  OUR UPPER FLOW WILL
GRADUALLY BACK INTO THE SOUTHWEST BY THURSDAY.  AS OUR UPPER FLOW
BACKS INTO THE SOUTHWEST PRESSURES BEGIN TO FALL ACROSS MONTANA AND
A SURFACE FRONT WILL DEVELOP FROM NORTHERN WYOMING UP INTO EASTERN
MONTANA.  NOT SEEING ANYTHING IN THE MORNING HOURS TO TRIGGER
CONVECTION...BUT SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT AND THE DEVELOPING FRONT MAY
TRIGGER A STORM OR TWO DURING THE AFTERNOON.  BIGGEST CHANGE WAS TO
REMOVE POPS FOR THURSDAY MORNING AND BUMP UP TEMPERATURES A BIT
ACROSS OUR SOUTHEAST ZONES AS THIS AREA IS LIKELY TO BE SOUTH OF THE
DEVELOPING FRONT. CB

.LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY...
UPPER LEVEL FLOW REMAINS FROM THE SOUTHWEST OR SOUTH FOR THE
ENTIRE EXTENDED PERIOD WHICH USUALLY RESULTS IN UNSETTLED
WEATHER. THIS EXTENDED PERIOD LOOKS NO DIFFERENT. ISOLATED OR
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP ANY DAY IN THE
EXTENDED.

THE MODELS ARE ALL IN AGREEMENT ON THE UPPER LEVEL PATTERN. MODELS
INDICATE THAT A SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION AND KEEP
CLOUDS AND TEMPERATURES COOLER THAN THEY HAVE BEEN.  TLSJR

&&

.AVIATION...
STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA THIS EVENING.
CONDITIONS SHOULD REMAIN IN THE VFR CATEGORY EXPECT WHERE
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP. CURRENTLY A LINE OF SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORM ARE MOVING NORTHWEST ACROSS AREA.  TLSJR

&&

.CLIMATE...
THE LOW TEMPERATURE SO FAR TODAY AT THE GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT IS 64 DEGREES.  THE RECORD WARM MINIMUM TEMPERATURE FOR
TODAY (MAY 23RD) IS 58 DEGREES.  THERE IS STILL THE POSSIBILITY
THAT THE TEMPERATURE WILL FALL BELOW 58 DEGREES LATE THIS EVENING. CB

&&

.GLASGOW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR FOR FORT PECK
LAKE.

&&

WEATHER.GOV/GLASGOW
Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 2:31 PM MDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
231 PM MDT TUE MAY 23 2006

MTZ016-017-021>023-241200-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY-
PETROLEUM-GARFIELD-MCCONE-
231 PM MDT TUE MAY 23 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

NORTHWEST WINDS AT 20 TO 30 MPH WITH OCCANSIONAL STRONGER GUSTS
WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE PROBLEMS ON FORT PECK LAKE THROUGH THIS EVENING.

SOME THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP WITH SOME GUSTY WINDS.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE LAKE WIND ADVISORY SEE WWUS75 KGGW OR GTFNPWGGW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

WINDS MAY AGAIN BE A PROBLEM ACROSS FORT PECK LAKE ON WEDNESDAY. STRONG
WINDS MAY DEVELOP IN THE MORNING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

MTZ018>020-024>027-062-241200-
DANIELS-SHERIDAN-WESTERN ROOSEVELT-RICHLAND-DAWSON-PRAIRIE-WIBAUX-
EASTERN ROOSEVELT-
231 PM MDT TUE MAY 23 2006

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS EVENING AND SOME MAY HAVE GUSTY
WINDS OR SMALL HAIL WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

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, May 23, 4:47 PM MDT, 9 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 23, 3:53 AM MDTLake Wind AdvisoryGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley16 hr
May 23, 2:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Valley63 min
May 23, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWMcCone60 min
May 23, 4:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Valley67 min
May 23, 4:34 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWMcCone, Prairie3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Montana, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.