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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Glasgow, MT
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.
- 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
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.