Alert archive / Montana / Blizzard Warnings in 2010
Blizzard Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this blizzard warning at Oct 26, 2010, 4:02 AM MDT for Richland County, Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, Montana. It took effect at Oct 26, 2010, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 23 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
- Oct 26, 2010, 4:02 AM MDT (10:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 26, 2010, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Oct 27, 2010, 7:48 AM MDT
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
Counties Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:00 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 343 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
- 619 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Blizzard Warnings in Montana, 2010Every blizzard warning in 2010
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.