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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 16, 2011Petroleum County, Phillips County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 2011, 5:57 PM MDT for Petroleum County, Phillips County, Montana. It was in force for 63 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 16, 2011, 5:57 PM MDT (23:57 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 2011, 7:00 PM MDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:55 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

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 12.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2011-07-16Temperature 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2011-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2068 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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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 16, 5:15 PM MDT, 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 5:15 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 16, 3:06 AM MDT, 14 hours 51 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
306 AM MDT SAT JUL 16 2011

MTZ016>027-059>062-171000-
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-
306 AM MDT SAT JUL 16 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT

A CHANCE FOR STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXISTS THIS EVENING FOR AREAS
WEST OF FORT PECK LAKE. ISOLATED SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT OUT OF THE
QUESTION... WITH LARGE HAIL... DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

THIS WEEKEND WILL START A WARMING TREND THAT WILL LAST THROUGH AT
LEAST TUESDAY OF NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL BE IN THE MID 90S BY
SUNDAY AND REACH INTO NEAR TRIPLE DIGITS ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY. PERSONS ARE ADVISED TO TAKE
PRECAUTIONS TO DEAL WITH THE HEAT... SUCH AS LIMITING TIME
OUTDOORS AND DRINKING PLENTY OF WATER.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

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

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 16, 4:17 PM MDT, 1 hour 40 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 6:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield, Petroleum, Phillips54 min
Jul 15, 7:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips, Valley60 min
Jul 15, 8:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWValley60 min
Jul 15, 8:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGW67 min
Jul 15, 9:40 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWDawson, McCone, Prairie4 hr
Jul 15, 9:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWDawson55 min
Jul 15, 10:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, Richland, Wibaux54 min
Jul 16, 1:52 AM MDTFlash Flood WarningGGWDawson, McCone, Richland3 hr
Jul 16, 3:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips58 min
Jul 16, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips60 min
Jul 16, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips, Valley37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2011Every severe thunderstorm warning 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.