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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Glasgow, MT

June 15, 2025Garfield County, Petroleum County, Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2025, 12:13 AM MDT for Garfield County, Petroleum County, Montana. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2025, 12:13 AM MDT (06:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2025, 1:15 AM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Hail
1.0 in
Wind
50.0 mph

Counties Garfield County, MT, Petroleum County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:13 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 14, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 137 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2025-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 263 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, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2025-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
263 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2032 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 14, 9:08 PM MDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 14, 9:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementGGWPhillips67 min
Jun 15, 1:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield61 min
Jun 15, 2:07 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, McCone53 min
Jun 15, 5:49 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWMcCone, Prairie26 min
Jun 15, 6:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWDawson, Garfield, McCone, Prairie60 min
Jun 15, 6:49 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWGarfield56 min
Jun 15, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWPhillips63 min
Jun 15, 5:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGWSheridan28 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.