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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 357
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2014, 1:33 PM MDT for 19 counties in Montana; 7 counties in Wyoming. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2014, 1:33 PM MDT (19:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2014, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 60 kt
All 26 counties
Big Horn County, MT, Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT, Big Horn County, WY, Campbell County, WY, Crook County, WY, Johnson County, WY, Sheridan County, WY, Washakie County, WY, Weston County, WY
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 162 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 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
- 5%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 40%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 40%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 30%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 3:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River, Rosebud | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Johnson | 50 min |
| Jun 26, 3:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Johnson | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 4:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 55 min |
| Jun 26, 4:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, Prairie | 25 min |
| Jun 26, 4:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Campbell | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 4:58 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Campbell | 21 min |
| Jun 26, 5:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook, Weston | 64 min |
| Jun 26, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Fallon | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 6:48 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | RIW | Washakie | 102 min |
| Jun 26, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Crook | 39 min |
| Jun 26, 7:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Powder River | 44 min |
| Jun 26, 7:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Johnson | 40 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 12:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Daniels, Dawson, Fallon and 13 more | 115 min |
| Jun 26, 5:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Dawson, Fallon and 14 more | 90 min |
| Jun 25, 8:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Weston | 90 min |
| Jun 26, 2:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Converse, Goshen, Laramie, Niobrara, Platte and 1 more | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 3:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Converse, Goshen, Laramie, Niobrara, Platte | 8 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Goshen, Laramie, Niobrara | 87 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.