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Special Weather Statement, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this special weather statement at Aug 13, 2022, 2:21 PM MDT. It was in force for 24 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 13, 2022, 2:21 PM MDT (20:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2022, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
- Hail
- 0.00 in
- Wind
- 40
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 13, 2:01 PM MDT, 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:01 PM MDT, 20 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 2:06 PM MDT, 15 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 12, 6:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Beaverhead, Jefferson | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 6:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Toole | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 6:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Glacier | 28 min |
| Aug 12, 6:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Pondera | 39 min |
| Aug 12, 6:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Toole | 46 min |
| Aug 12, 6:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Lewis and Clark | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 6:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Glacier | 25 min |
| Aug 12, 6:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Beaverhead | 23 min |
| Aug 12, 6:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Liberty | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 7:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Cascade, Meagher, Pondera, Teton | 27 min |
| Aug 12, 7:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Pondera, Teton | 32 min |
| Aug 12, 7:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Hill | 45 min |
| Aug 12, 7:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill | 54 min |
| Aug 12, 7:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Chouteau | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 8:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Chouteau, Judith Basin | 33 min |
| Aug 12, 8:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Blaine | 40 min |
| Aug 12, 8:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine, Hill | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 8:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus | 43 min |
| Aug 12, 8:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Gallatin | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 8:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Chouteau, Judith Basin | 47 min |
| Aug 12, 9:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Blaine | 61 min |
| Aug 12, 9:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus, Judith Basin | 65 min |
| Aug 13, 10:07 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Jefferson | 38 min |
| Aug 13, 10:46 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Broadwater | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 12:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Judith Basin | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 12:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Meagher | 29 min |
| Aug 13, 1:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Gallatin | 44 min |
| Aug 13, 1:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Judith Basin | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 1:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 24 min | |
| Aug 13, 1:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Gallatin | 30 min |
| Aug 13, 2:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus | 24 min |
| Aug 13, 2:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Wheatland | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 2:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Fergus | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 2:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 25 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Madison | 37 min |
| Aug 13, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Toole | 28 min |
| Aug 13, 3:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Madison | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 29 min | |
| Aug 13, 4:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | Toole | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 23 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.