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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this high wind watch at Feb 17, 2016, 2:10 PM MST for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 17, 2016, 2:10 PM MST (21:10 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 18, 2016, 6:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 18, 2016, 3:28 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
Counties Dawson County, MT, Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Wibaux County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:08 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 367 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
- 1432 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 17, 1:53 PM MST, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 1:53 PM MST, 17 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 8:13 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | GGW | Daniels, Dawson, McCone, Phillips, Prairie, Richland and 4 more | 19 hr |
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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.