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Lake Wind Advisory 21, NWS Glasgow, MT

April 18, 20065 counties in Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this lake wind advisory at Apr 18, 2006, 3:49 AM MDT for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Apr 18, 2006, 10:34 PM MDT. It was in force for 20 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 18, 2006, 3:49 AM MDT (09:49 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 18, 2006, 10:34 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 19, 2006, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
20 hr
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT

Counties Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:50 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 00:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 496 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 00:00Z on 2006-04-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2006-04-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 17, 10:05 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningGGWDawson, Prairie6 hr
Apr 18, 3:53 AM MDTBlizzard WarningGGWDaniels, Dawson, McCone, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt and 2 more30 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.