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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Glasgow, MT
NWS Glasgow, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 26, 2023, 2:30 AM MDT for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 26, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 9 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
- Jul 26, 2023, 2:30 AM MDT (08:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 26, 2023, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 26, 2023, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Glasgow, MT
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 08:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 366 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
- 3026 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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.