Alert archive / Montana / Blizzard Warnings in 2022
Blizzard Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this blizzard warning at Dec 15, 2022, 11:25 AM MST for 7 counties in Montana. It was in force for 22 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 15, 2022, 11:25 AM MST (18:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 16, 2022, 8:57 AM MST
- In force
- 22 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
Counties Dawson County, MT, McCone County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Richland County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Wibaux County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 142 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 333 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
- 623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 140 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.