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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT

January 31, 200912 counties in Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this high wind warning at Jan 31, 2009, 4:02 AM MST for 12 counties in Montana. It was in force for 8 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 31, 2009, 4:02 AM MST (11:02 UTC)
Expired
Jan 31, 2009, 11:43 AM MST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT

Counties Daniels County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wibaux County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:01 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 402 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 2009-01-31Temperature 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 2009-01-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 294 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1416 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
294 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
372 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 high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jan 30, 9:26 PM MST, 6 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 30, 9:26 PM MST, 6 hours 36 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 30, 4:03 AM MST, 23 hours 59 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
403 AM MST FRI JAN 30 2009

MTZ016>027-059>062-311100-
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-
403 AM MST FRI JAN 30 2009

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT
A MIX OF LIGHT RAIN AND LIGHT FREEZING RAIN THAT FELL OVERNIGHT
HAS MADE SOME ROADS EAST OF MALTA AND JORDAN SLIPPERY. MORE LIGHT
RAIN IS POSSIBLE THIS MORNING EAST OF OPHEIM...WOLF POINT AND
GLENDIVE WITH A MIX OF LIGHT FREEZING RAIN POSSIBLE BETWEEN
PLENTYWOOD AND CULBERTSON. IF TRAVELING THIS MORNING...LOOK OUT
FOR AREAS OF BLACK ICE AND ALLOW EXTRA TIME TO REACH YOUR
DESTINATION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY
A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE AREA EARLY SATURDAY MORNING.
WEST TO NORTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 20 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS
AS HIGH AS 50 MPH BEHIND THE FRONT. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE
NORTH OF THE MISSOURI RIVER. BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IS POSSIBLE
NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER ON SATURDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

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.