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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Glasgow, MT

July 27, 2015Dawson County, Richland County, Wibaux County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 27, 2015, 6:47 PM MDT for Dawson County, Richland County, Wibaux County, Montana. It was in force for 58 min. 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 27, 2015, 6:47 PM MDT (00:47 UTC)
Expired
Jul 27, 2015, 7:45 PM MDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
0.75 in
Wind
60.0 mph

Counties Dawson County, MT, Richland County, MT, Wibaux County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 27, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 27, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 181 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 2015-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1103 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2015-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 201 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-27 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1263 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
435 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
2.1
Supercell composite
13.7

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 27, 3:36 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:36 PM MDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
336 PM MDT MON JUL 27 2015

.SHORT TERM...FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA...TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...
A STRONG SUMMER STORM SYSTEM WILL IMPACT NORTHEAST MONTANA TONIGHT
THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING.

CURRENTLY THE MAIN UPPER TROUGH IS SWINGING THROUGH THE NORTHERN
ROCKIES...PLACING NORTHEAST MONTANA IN A SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT.
THE MAIN FOCUS IS FOR THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING...TRANSITIONING
TO HEAVY SHOWERS OVERNIGHT. SHEAR AND INSTABILITY IS SUCH THAT
SOME STORMS THIS EVENING COULD BE SEVERE...ESPECIALLY ALONG THE
NORTH DAKOTA BORDER WHERE SHEAR AND INSTABILITY IS MORE FAVORABLE.

HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO BE A THREAT...ESPECIALLY FOR THOSE AREAS
THAT ALREADY SAW HEAVY PRECIP TOTALS LAST NIGHT...THUS THE FLOOD
WATCH WAS EXPANDED TO INCLUDE VALLEY AND DANIELS COUNTIES.

TUESDAY MORNING WINDS WILL QUICKLY BE ON THE UPTICK AS THE UPPER
LOW DEEPENS OVER SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. MODELS CONTINUE TO DEPICT WINDS
REACHING 40 TO 60 MPH...THUS WENT AHEAD AND ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST MONTANA.

WINDS WILL QUICKLY DECREASE BY SUNSET ON TUESDAY AS THE STACKED
SYSTEM PUSHES OUT TO THE EAST. PRECIPITATION WILL HAVE ALL BUT
ENDED ACROSS MONTANA AS WELL...WITH JUST THE FAR NORTHEAST
POSSIBLY SEEING SOME SHOWERS DURING THE EVENING HOURS.

TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WILL BE CONSIDERABLY QUIETER AS UPPER
RIDGING BEGINS TO BUILD IN FROM THE WEST.

.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY...

THE UPPER RIDGE REBOUNDS IN THE WEST...WHICH WILL GENERATE ZONAL
TO SLIGHTLY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT FOR NORTHEAST MONTANA. THIS
WILL BE A GENERALLY WARM AND DRY PATTERN THROUGH THE WEEKEND. ALSO
CONTINUOUS DISTURBANCES IN CANADA WILL TEND TO MAINTAIN THE
STATIONARY BOUNDARY OVER THE LOCAL REGION. THIS WILL KEEP THE HOT
DESERT AIR TO OUR SOUTH...WHICH WILL KEEP OUR TEMPERATURES NEAR
NORMAL. FEW NEEDED CHANGE TO THE EXTENDED PERIOD. SCT

PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...
UPPER HIGH DOMINATES OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST THROUGH THE
EXTENDED PERIOD...WITH RIDGE EXTENDING INTO THE NORTHERN ROCKIES.
UPPER LOW CURRENTLY MOVING TOWARD MONTANA STALLS OUT OVER HUDSON
BAY BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THIS WILL KEEP NORTHEAST MONTANA IN
SLIGHTLY NORTHWEST FLOW INTO NEXT WEEKEND.

REBOUNDING RIDGE WILL BRING HOT AND DRY WEATHER BACK INTO MONTANA
FOR THE END OF THE WEEK. HOWEVER JET ACROSS WESTERN CANADA WILL
SUPPRESS RIDGE ENOUGH TO KEEP TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL. WHILE MOST
OF THE MOISTURE ALSO REMAINS NORTH OF THE BORDER A FEW SHORTWAVES
MOVING THROUGH THE FLOW COULD PUSH SHOWERS TOWARD THE HILINE BY
THE WEEKEND BUT WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY FOR NOW. EBERT

&&

.AVIATION...
A POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE NORTHERN ROCKIES TODAY
THAT WILL BRING AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN...THUNDERSTORMS...SOME
SEVERE...AND VERY STRONG WINDS LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH
TUESDAY.

MOSTLY VFR THIS AFTERNOON...HOWEVER A SURFACE LOW IN NORTHEAST
WYOMING WILL BRING STRONG NORTHEAST WINDS OF 25-35KT...

...THEN MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS LIKELY TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN THE
NORTH AS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS
EASTERN MONTANA.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON
AND EVENING.

...SOME STORMS MAY PRODUCE SEVERE WIND GUSTS AND/OR LARGE DAMAGING
HAIL...

...THEN WIDESPREAD RAIN IS EXPECTED OVERNIGHT AND INTO TUESDAY.
SOME RAIN WILL BE HEAVY.

TUESDAY...VERY STRONG SUSTAINED WINDS OF 25-35G55KT...AND POSSIBLY
HIGHER...ARE EXPECTED BEHIND THE SYSTEM.

SCT

&&

.GLASGOW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
HIGH WIND WARNING FROM 9 AM TO 9 PM MDT TUESDAY FOR CENTRAL AND
SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY...DANIELS...
DAWSON...EASTERN ROOSEVELT...GARFIELD...MCCONE...NORTHERN
PHILLIPS...NORTHERN VALLEY...PETROLEUM...PRAIRIE...RICHLAND...
SHERIDAN...SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS...WESTERN ROOSEVELT...WIBAUX.

LAKE WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 AM MDT TUESDAY FOR FORT PECK LAKE FOR
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY...
GARFIELD...MCCONE...PETROLEUM.

FLOOD WATCH THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST
PHILLIPS...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY...DANIELS...NORTHERN
PHILLIPS...NORTHERN VALLEY...SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS.

RED FLAG WARNING UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT FOR MTZ122.

&&

WEATHER.GOV/GLASGOW
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 27, 2:35 PM MDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
235 PM MDT MON JUL 27 2015

MTZ016>027-059>062-281100-
CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST PHILLIPS-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN VALLEY-
DANIELS-SHERIDAN-WESTERN ROOSEVELT-PETROLEUM-GARFIELD-MCCONE-
RICHLAND-DAWSON-PRAIRIE-WIBAUX-NORTHERN PHILLIPS-
SOUTHWEST PHILLIPS-NORTHERN VALLEY-EASTERN ROOSEVELT-
235 PM MDT MON JUL 27 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST
MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PUSH THROUGH NORTHEAST MONTANA
TONIGHT AND TUESDAY...BRINGING A VARIETY OF WEATHER IMPACTS. A RED
FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR ZONE 122 THIS EVENING. A LAKE WIND
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR FORT PECK LAKE INTO TUESDAY MORNING. A FLOOD
WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR PHILLIPS...VALLEY...AND DANIELS COUNTIES
FOR TONIGHT INTO TUESDAY.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY

A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF NORTHEAST MONTANA ON
TUESDAY. VERY STRONG WESTERLY WIND WILL BE PRESENT.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 27, 5:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
544 PM MDT MON JUL 27 2015

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0540 PM     HAIL             14 SW HINSDALE          48.25N 107.30W
07/27/2015  E0.50 INCH       VALLEY             MT   TRAINED SPOTTER

            PEA AND DIME SIZED HAIL WITH HEAVY RAIN AND WIND GUST TO
            AROUND 40 MPH.

&&

MATTM
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 27, 6:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, McCone, Prairie66 min
Jul 27, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips, Valley66 min
Jul 27, 7:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWMcCone, Valley53 min
Jul 27, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, McCone, Prairie33 min
Jul 27, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield, McCone58 min
Jul 27, 7:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Valley62 min
Jul 27, 7:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Dawson, McCone, Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan65 min
Jul 27, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, McCone, Roosevelt, Valley61 min
Jul 27, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield, McCone61 min
Jul 27, 8:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, McCone, Prairie59 min
Jul 27, 8:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, Wibaux66 min
Jul 27, 8:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDaniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Valley62 min
Jul 27, 9:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, McCone, Prairie, Richland, Wibaux60 min
Jul 27, 10:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWRichland63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2015Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2015

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.