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Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 26, 2015, 2:24 PM MDT for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 27, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 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 26, 2015, 2:24 PM MDT (20:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 27, 2015, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2015, 9:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
Counties Dawson County, MT, McCone County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Wibaux County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 159 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -422 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2000 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 26, 9:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 9:07 AM MDT, 5 hours 17 minutes before
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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.