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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Glasgow, MT

May 15, 2011Wibaux County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this high wind watch at May 15, 2011, 3:07 PM MDT for Wibaux County, Montana. It took effect at May 16, 2011, 8:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 15, 2011, 3:07 PM MDT (21:07 UTC)
In effect from
May 16, 2011, 8:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 16, 2011, 3:19 AM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT

County Wibaux County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 225 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 271 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 2011-05-15Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2011-05-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 72 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1893 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
128 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 watch 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 watch went out at May 15, 9:06 AM MDT, 6 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 15, 9:06 AM MDT, 6 hours 1 minute before
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Hazardous weather outlook, May 15, 2:56 PM MDT, 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
256 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2011

MTZ016-017-021>023-059>061-161200-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY-
PETROLEUM-GARFIELD-MCCONE-NORTHERN PHILLIPS-SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS-
NORTHERN VALLEY-
256 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR FORT PECK LAKE THROUGH 6 PM
MONDAY. SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL CONTINUE AT 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS
TO 45 MPH THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS. THE SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL
DIMINISH TO 20 TO 30 MPH TONIGHT BEFORE AGAIN PICKING UP MONDAY
MORNING.

A FLOOD ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE MUSSELSHELL RIVER ON
THE PETROLEUM/GARFIELD COUNTY LINE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

CONFIDENCE IS GROWING IN ANOTHER WET PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM IMPACTING
NORTHEAST MONTANA TUESDAY INTO FRIDAY. SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE
WITH THIS SYSTEM...THEREFORE ADDITIONAL RISES ON AREA CREEKS...STREAMS
AND RIVERS WILL BE POSSIBLE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS FOR DETAILS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

MTZ018>020-024>026-062-161200-
DANIELS-SHERIDAN-WESTERN ROOSEVELT-RICHLAND-DAWSON-PRAIRIE-
EASTERN ROOSEVELT-
256 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

STRONG SOUTHEAST WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH WILL
AFFECT THE AREA DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

CONFIDENCE IS GROWING IN ANOTHER WET PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM IMPACTING
NORTHEAST MONTANA TUESDAY INTO FRIDAY. SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE
WITH THIS SYSTEM...THEREFORE ADDITIONAL RISES ON AREA CREEKS...STREAMS
AND RIVERS WILL BE POSSIBLE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS FOR DETAILS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

MTZ027-161200-
WIBAUX-
256 PM MDT SUN MAY 15 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

A HIGH WIND WATCH FOR WIBAUX COUNTY IS IN EFFECT FROM 8AM TO 9PM
MONDAY FOR WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 40 MPH AND POSSIBLE GUSTS ABOVE
50 MPH.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY

CONFIDENCE IS GROWING IN ANOTHER WET PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM IMPACTING
NORTHEAST MONTANA TUESDAY INTO FRIDAY. SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE
WITH THIS SYSTEM...THEREFORE ADDITIONAL RISES ON AREA CREEKS...STREAMS
AND RIVERS WILL BE POSSIBLE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LATEST
FORECASTS FOR DETAILS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Montana, 2011Every high wind watch in 2011

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.