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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 121, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 6, 2007Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2007, 9:37 PM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 53 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
Jul 6, 2007, 9:37 PM MDT (03:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2007, 10:30 PM MDT
In force
53 min
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 03:38 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

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 310 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, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2007-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2522 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2007-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 36 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
2522 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3095 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.6

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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 Jul 6, 8:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 8:32 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 9:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips62 min
Jul 6, 10:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWValley59 min
Jul 6, 11:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Valley57 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.