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Special Weather Statement, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 26, 2012Valley County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2012, 1:08 AM MDT for Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 67 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 26, 2012, 1:08 AM MDT (07:08 UTC)
Expired
Jun 26, 2012, 2:15 AM MDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT

County Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:07 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

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 46 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2012-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3072 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2012-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 89 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
3072 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-206 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1552 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
89 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
3.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

055 
WWUS85 KGGW 260708
SPSGGW

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
108 AM MDT TUE JUN 26 2012

MTZ016-017-022-260815-
GARFIELD-PHILLIPS-VALLEY-
108 AM MDT TUE JUN 26 2012

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS ISSUED A

SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR...
  SOUTHWESTERN VALLEY COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA...
  SOUTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA...
  NORTHERN GARFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST MONTANA...

UNTIL 215 AM MDT.

AT 106 AM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 13 MILES NORTHEAST OF DEVILS CREEK REC AREA...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

LOCATIONS IN THE ADVISORY INCLUDE...
  RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHWESTERN VALLEY COUNTY...
  RURAL AREAS OF SOUTHEASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...
  RURAL AREAS OF EASTERN PHILLIPS COUNTY...

THIS STORM MAY INTENSIFY...AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN
EFFECT FOR THIS AREA. BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO AND TV
STATIONS...AS WELL AS LOCAL CABLE TV OUTLETS...FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

LAT...LON 4839 10709 4788 10640 4765 10746 4778 10765
TIME...MOT...LOC 0708Z 226DEG 20KT 4777 10745

$$

MORGAN/PROTON
WEATHER.GOV/GLASGOW

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 6:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWPrairie54 min
Jun 25, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, Prairie62 min
Jun 25, 7:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWDawson67 min
Jun 26, 12:10 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGW65 min
Jun 26, 12:29 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGW61 min
Jun 26, 12:35 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWValley55 min
Jun 26, 12:41 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips64 min
Jun 26, 1:00 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWPetroleum60 min
Jun 26, 1:28 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWValley62 min
Jun 26, 1:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips61 min
Jun 26, 2:12 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWValley63 min
Jun 26, 2:46 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWDaniels44 min
Jun 26, 3:17 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGW43 min
Jun 26, 3:32 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips58 min
Jun 26, 3:35 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWDaniels55 min
Jun 26, 3:55 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWDawson, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Prairie, Richland and 1 more18 hr
Jun 26, 4:05 AM MDTLake Wind AdvisoryGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley41 hr
Jun 26, 3:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWDawson47 min
Jun 26, 4:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWRichland43 min
Jun 26, 4:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland44 min
Jun 26, 5:55 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Valley2 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.