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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 25, 20145 counties in Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 25, 2014, 3:34 AM MDT for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 25, 2014, 10:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 12 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: Jul 25, 2014, 3:34 AM MDT (09:34 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 25, 2014, 10:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jul 25, 2014, 9:42 PM MDT
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Glasgow, MT

Counties Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:32 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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 67 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 67 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -267 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.3

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Jul 24, 8:38 PM MDT, 6 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 8:38 PM MDT, 6 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 6:07 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Roosevelt, Sheridan	38 min
Jul 24, 6:17 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Dawson, Richland, Wibaux	31 min
Jul 24, 6:31 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Daniels, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan	59 min
Jul 24, 6:53 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Dawson, Wibaux	54 min
Jul 24, 7:18 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Richland, Roosevelt	27 min
Jul 24, 7:18 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	GGW	Dawson, Wibaux	22 min
Jul 24, 7:38 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	GGW	Richland, Roosevelt	16 min
Jul 24, 9:11 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	GGW	Sheridan	34 min
Jul 25, 3:31 AM MDT	Lake Wind Advisory	GGW	Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley	18 hr
Jul 25, 9:06 AM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	GGW	Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley	18 hr

Nearby

Red Flag Warnings in Montana, 2014 Every red flag warning in 2014

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.