Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 354
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 4, 2012, 4:32 PM MDT for 26 counties in Montana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2012, 4:32 PM MDT (22:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2012, 10:03 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
All 26 counties
Beaverhead County, MT, Blaine County, MT, Broadwater County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Cascade County, MT, Chouteau County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Gallatin County, MT, Glacier County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Hill County, MT, Jefferson County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Lewis and Clark County, MT, Liberty County, MT, Madison County, MT, Meagher County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Pondera County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Teton County, MT, Toole County, MT, Wheatland County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:34 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.
What SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 20%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 10%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 30%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 50%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 20%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 95%
Warnings issued inside it
7 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Lewis and Clark | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Lewis and Clark, Teton | 62 min |
| Jun 4, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Chouteau, Pondera, Teton | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 7:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Hill, Liberty | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 8:06 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | TFX | Chouteau | 39 min |
| Jun 4, 8:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Hill, Liberty | 72 min |
| Jun 4, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Liberty, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 61 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 1725 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 536 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 12:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli and 1 more | 86 min |
| Jun 4, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral and 5 more | 10 hr |
| Jun 4, 2:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaverhead, Blaine, Broadwater, Carbon, Cascade, Chouteau and 19 more | 88 min |
| Jun 4, 4:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula and 4 more | 90 min |
| Jun 4, 5:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Hill and 8 more | 62 min |
Nearby
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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.