Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 464
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 29, 2007, 2:19 PM MDT for 12 counties in Montana. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 29, 2007, 2:19 PM MDT (20:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 2007, 12:19 AM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2.5 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
Counties Blaine County, MT, Cascade County, MT, Chouteau County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Glacier County, MT, Hill County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Lewis and Clark County, MT, Liberty County, MT, Pondera County, MT, Teton County, MT, Toole County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
11 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Glacier | 37 min |
| Jun 29, 3:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Glacier, Pondera, Toole | 42 min |
| Jun 29, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Toole | 20 min |
| Jun 29, 7:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Pondera, Teton | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 7:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau | 45 min |
| Jun 29, 7:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Liberty | 65 min |
| Jun 29, 8:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 9:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau | 27 min |
| Jun 29, 9:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine, Hill | 54 min |
| Jun 29, 10:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 60 min |
| Jun 29, 11:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 32 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 371 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1893 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 327 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 11:04 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Cascade, Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 86 min |
| Jun 29, 5:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Fergus and 22 more | 2 hr |
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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.