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High Wind Warning 10, NWS Glasgow, MT

March 15, 20264 counties in Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this high wind warning at Mar 15, 2026, 1:04 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Mar 16, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT. 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 15, 2026, 1:04 PM MDT (19:04 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 16, 2026, 8:00 PM MDT
Expired
Mar 18, 2026, 6:00 AM MDT
In force
34 hr
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT

Counties Garfield County, MT, Petroleum County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Valley County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:08 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

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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 12:00Z on 2026-03-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2026-03-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 15, 1:04 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchGGWGarfield, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley23 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.