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Special Weather Statement, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2020, 6:44 PM MDT for Lewis and Clark County, Montana. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2020, 6:44 PM MDT (00:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2020, 7:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
County Lewis and Clark County, MT
The radar
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Aug 5, 3:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 3:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 5, 6:18 PM MDT, 26 minutes before
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</html>Special weather statement, Aug 5, 6:44 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 5, 6:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Lewis and Clark | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 6:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Broadwater | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 6:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Lewis and Clark | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 6:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Broadwater | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 7:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Lewis and Clark | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 7:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Meagher | 30 min |
| Aug 5, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Cascade | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 8:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Meagher | 27 min |
| Aug 5, 8:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Cascade, Meagher | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 9:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Cascade | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 1:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Madison | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 1:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus | 34 min |
| Aug 6, 2:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Madison | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 2:23 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin and 12 more | 31 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Judith Basin | 37 min |
| Aug 6, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Madison | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 3:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 3:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 31 min | |
| Aug 6, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 19 min |
| Aug 6, 3:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Madison | 40 min |
| Aug 6, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Broadwater | 43 min |
| Aug 6, 3:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus | 23 min |
| Aug 6, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Jefferson | 27 min |
| Aug 6, 4:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Gallatin | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Cascade | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 4:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 23 min | |
| Aug 6, 4:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Blaine | 36 min |
| Aug 6, 4:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Broadwater | 26 min |
| Aug 6, 5:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Blaine | 29 min |
| Aug 6, 5:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Jefferson, Lewis and Clark | 25 min |
| Aug 6, 5:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Blaine | 31 min |
| Aug 6, 5:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Cascade | 30 min |
| Aug 6, 5:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Broadwater, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark | 26 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.