Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 122
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 26, 2018, 5:36 PM MDT for 9 counties in Montana; 9 counties in North Dakota. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2018, 5:36 PM MDT (23:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2018, 3:00 AM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 2 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 65 kt
Counties Dawson County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wibaux County, MT, Adams County, ND, Billings County, ND, Bowman County, ND, Dunn County, ND, Golden Valley County, ND, Hettinger County, ND, McKenzie County, ND, Slope County, ND, Stark County, ND
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:36 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
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 60%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 40%
- 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 6:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, McCone | 59 min |
| May 26, 6:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, McCone, Valley | 53 min |
| May 26, 7:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield, McCone, Valley | 63 min |
| May 26, 8:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, McCone, Richland | 67 min |
| May 26, 9:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, Richland | 61 min |
| May 26, 9:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, McCone | 61 min |
| May 26, 9:49 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | Garfield, McCone | 4 hr |
| May 26, 10:21 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | GGW | Dawson, McCone, Richland | 4 hr |
| May 26, 11:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Dawson, McCone, Prairie, Richland, Wibaux | 58 min |
| May 26, 11:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | McKenzie | 54 min |
| May 26, 11:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Billings, Golden Valley, McKenzie | 65 min |
| May 27, 12:43 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | Dunn, McKenzie, McLean, Mountrail | 62 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 422 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1948 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beaverhead, Big Horn, Broadwater, Carbon, Cascade, Custer and 33 more | 114 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Custer, Dawson, Fallon, Garfield, McCone, Prairie and 4 more | 119 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.