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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Glasgow, MT

January 20, 20268 counties in Montana

NWS Glasgow, MT issued this high wind warning at Jan 20, 2026, 1:54 PM MST for 8 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jan 21, 2026, 12:00 AM MST. 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
Jan 20, 2026, 1:54 PM MST (20:54 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 21, 2026, 12:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 21, 2026, 9:00 AM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Glasgow, MT

Counties Dawson County, MT, Garfield County, MT, McCone County, MT, Phillips County, MT, Prairie County, MT, Roosevelt County, MT, Valley County, MT, Wibaux County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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 2026-01-20Temperature 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 2026-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 132 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
923 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.