Alert archive / Montana / High Wind Warnings in 2012
High Wind Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this high wind warning at Jan 15, 2012, 5:06 AM MST for Phillips County, Montana. It was in force for 5 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 15, 2012, 5:06 AM MST (12:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2012, 9:37 AM MST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
County Phillips County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 1081 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 96 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -133 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 256 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
792 WWUS75 KGGW 151206 NPWGGW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT ISSUED BY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 506 AM MST SUN JAN 15 2012 .VERY STRONG WINDS WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF A STRONG COLD FRONT THIS MORNING. THE WINDS WILL REMAIN VERY STRONG AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH...THEN DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON. MTZ060-152100- /O.NEW.KGGW.HW.W.0003.120115T1206Z-120115T2100Z/ SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ZORTMAN 506 AM MST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * WINDS...WEST WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH. THE WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH BY LATE MORNING. * TIMING...THE STRONG WEST WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTH LATE THIS MORNING. THE WINDS WILL DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS...THE STRONG WINDS WILL MAKE TRAVEL DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. LOOSE OBJECTS WILL BE VERY EASILY BLOWN AROUND. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN LEAD TO PROPERTY DAMAGE. && $$
1 follow-up statement
984 WWUS75 KGGW 151637 NPWGGW URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT 937 AM MST SUN JAN 15 2012 MTZ060-151745- /O.CAN.KGGW.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120115T2100Z/ SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...ZORTMAN 937 AM MST SUN JAN 15 2012 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS CANCELLED THE HIGH WIND WARNING. WINDS ACROSS THE REGION ARE LOWER THAN ANTICIPATED. THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. WINDS WILL STILL BE BREEZY TODAY NEAR 25 TO 35 MPH. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 5:16 AM MST | Wind Chill Advisory | GGW | Daniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips and 6 more | 28 hr |
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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.