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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Glasgow, MT

May 12, 2007Phillips County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2007, 9:09 PM MDT for Phillips County, Montana. It was in force for 31 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
May 12, 2007, 9:09 PM MDT (03:09 UTC)
Expired
May 12, 2007, 9:40 PM MDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Phillips County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 219 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 2007-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 7 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, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2007-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 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
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2492 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
325 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 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 May 12, 8:41 PM MDT, 28 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 12, 8:41 PM MDT, 28 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 12, 4:09 AM MDT, 17 hours before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
409 AM MDT SAT MAY 12 2007

MTZ017-022-023-131100-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY-GARFIELD-MCCONE-
409 AM MDT SAT MAY 12 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM TODAY UNTIL 8 PM THIS
EVENING FOR FORT PECK LAKE. SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO BETWEEN
15 TO 25 MPH THIS MORNING WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 35 MPH. IN
ADDITION...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY LATE
THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM WHITEWATER TO
WINNETT. THESE STORMS WILL SPREAD EASTWARD TONIGHT WHILE REMAINING
ISOLATED IN COVERAGE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. A
COLD FRONT WILL FUEL THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS BY SUNDAY
AFTERNOON. ANY OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

MTZ016-018>021-024>027-059>062-131100-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-DANIELS-SHERIDAN-WESTERN ROOSEVELT-
PETROLEUM-RICHLAND-DAWSON-PRAIRIE-WIBAUX-NORTHERN PHILLIPS-
SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS-NORTHERN VALLEY-EASTERN ROOSEVELT-
409 AM MDT SAT MAY 12 2007

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A FEW THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON
MAINLY WEST OF A LINE EXTENDING FROM WHITEWATER TO WINNETT BEFORE
SPREADING EASTWARD TONIGHT. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN
ISOLATED IN COVERAGE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR PRODUCING SMALL HAIL
AND GUSTY WINDS.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. A
COLD FRONT WILL FUEL THE DEVELOPMENT OF THUNDERSTORMS BY SUNDAY
AFTERNOON. ANY OF THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP COULD PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

.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 12, 9:05 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 12, 8:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPetroleum54 min
May 13, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips, Valley57 min
May 13, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWValley46 min
May 13, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Valley63 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.