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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 85, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 19, 2008Daniels County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 2008, 9:49 AM MDT for Daniels County, Montana. It was in force for 56 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 19, 2008, 9:49 AM MDT (15:49 UTC)
Expired
Jul 19, 2008, 10:45 AM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Daniels County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:51 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 426 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 2008-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 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 2008-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -14 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-156 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-14 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
20 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 Jul 19, 3:40 AM MDT, 6 hours 9 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 3:40 AM MDT, 6 hours 9 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 18, 9:26 PM MDT, 12 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
926 PM MDT FRI JUL 18 2008

MTZ016>027-059>062-190430-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY-
DANIELS-SHERIDAN-WESTERN ROOSEVELT-PETROLEUM-GARFIELD-MCCONE-
RICHLAND-DAWSON-PRAIRIE-WIBAUX-NORTHERN PHILLIPS-
SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS-NORTHERN VALLEY-EASTERN ROOSEVELT-
926 PM MDT FRI JUL 18 2008

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 19, 6:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWValley53 min
Jul 19, 10:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan58 min
Jul 19, 11:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt, Sheridan60 min
Jul 19, 12:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland, Roosevelt65 min
Jul 19, 12:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRoosevelt, Sheridan16 min
Jul 19, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels64 min
Jul 19, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan64 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2008Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.