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Blizzard Warning 2, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this blizzard warning at Mar 10, 2023, 3:05 AM MST for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Mar 10, 2023, 9:44 AM MST. It was in force for 34 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
- Mar 10, 2023, 3:05 AM MST (10:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 10, 2023, 9:44 AM MST
- Expired
- Mar 11, 2023, 7:51 PM MST
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
Counties Daniels County, MT, Dawson County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Sheridan County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wibaux County, MT
The radar
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:07 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 393 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
- 651 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 113 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this blizzard warning 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 blizzard warning went out at Mar 9, 8:46 PM MST, 6 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 8:46 PM MST, 6 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Glasgow, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 3:05 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | GGW | Phillips, Valley | 7 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:05 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | GGW | Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Phillips, Prairie, Richland and 3 more | 39 hr |
| Mar 10, 9:44 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | GGW | Phillips, Roosevelt, Valley | 32 hr |
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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.