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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 23, 2018, 10:25 AM MDT for Richland County, Roosevelt County, Sheridan County, Montana. It was in force for 50 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
- May 23, 2018, 10:25 AM MDT (16:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 23, 2018, 11:15 AM MDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 143 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 141 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
- 1678 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 May 23, 8:38 AM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 8:38 AM MDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 6:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | Petroleum | 47 min |
| May 23, 7:58 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | Richland | 47 min |
| May 23, 9:44 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | Roosevelt | 46 min |
| May 23, 12:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | Sheridan | 48 min |
| May 23, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | McCone | 43 min |
| May 23, 4:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | Garfield | 49 min |
| May 23, 4:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, McCone | 57 min |
| May 23, 4:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | GGW | Garfield | 48 min |
| May 23, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | McCone | 64 min |
| May 23, 5:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Prairie | 60 min |
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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.