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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 8, 20215 counties in Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this flash flood watch at Jun 8, 2021, 3:07 AM MDT for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jun 8, 2021, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 8, 2021, 3:07 AM MDT (09:07 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 8, 2021, 2:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jun 9, 2021, 2:59 AM MDT
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Flood severity
None

Counties Daniels County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 436 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2021-06-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1478 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2021-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 17 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1478 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-69 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2452 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
5.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 7, 3:26 PM MDT, 11 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 3:26 PM MDT, 11 hours 41 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 4:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWPhillips47 min
Jun 8, 4:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWWibaux45 min
Jun 8, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, Richland, Wibaux53 min
Jun 8, 5:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGW44 min
Jun 8, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield, Valley64 min
Jun 8, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, Richland, Roosevelt, Wibaux63 min
Jun 8, 5:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWValley46 min
Jun 8, 5:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWWibaux43 min
Jun 8, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWRichland, Roosevelt63 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.