1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 16, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 300 PM MDT MON JUL 16 2001 THE PATTERN IS QUITE SIMILAR TO THE PAST FEW DAYS. LOW PRESSURE CENTERED OVER WA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA...AND A TROF EXTENDING DOWN ACROSS THE PAC NW. MOST OF THE INDICES LOOK A LITTLE MORE THREATENING THAN YESTERDAY...AND CERTAINLY THE WIND SHEAR PATTERN IS QUITE A BIT BETTER FOR SEVERE WEATHER THAN YESTERDAY. MOST IMPORTANTLY...A SHORT WAVE PUSHES THRU LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH AN ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT. WATCH BOX 559 HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ERN CWA OF MSO AND MOST OF OUR CWA. TUESDAY ONWARD NOT TOO MUCH CHANGE GOING ON. SURFACE TEMPS SHOULD TREND A LITTLE COOLER AS CAA CONTINUES...BUT AT THE SAME TIME THE HEIGHTS ALOFT WILL BE DROPPING. THUS AIRMASS REMAINS RELATIVELY UNSETTLED. ZELZER EXTENDED...SOME DIFFERENCE AMONG THE MODELS...BUT DO KEEP UPPER TROUGH OVER PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOR CONTINUED MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTHWEST FLOW FOR DAYS 3 AND 4. UPPER TROUGH THEN SLITS BY DAY 5 WITH THE NORTHERN BRANCH MOVING THROUGH AREA. WEAK UPPER RIDGE BUILDS BY DAY 6 AND 7 FOR DRY AND WARMER WEATHER. TEMPERATURES WILL BE A LITTLE BELOW NORMAL WITH AT OR A LITTLE ABOVE NORMAL PRECIPITATION. CCF NUMBERS GTF EE 050 078 048 074 048 135122 CTB EE 048 072 046 070 045 135122 HLN EE 050 075 048 075 048 135222 BZN EE 047 075 047 073 045 136323 WEY PEE 052 074 040 072 038 136322 DLN EE 046 072 045 072 045 135223 HVR EE 057 080 054 080 052 136122 LWT EE 050 072 050 070 048 136222
LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
447 PM MDT MON JUL 16 2001
TIME(MDT) .....EVENT LOCATION..... ST ...EVENT/REMARKS...........
.....COUNTY LOCATION.....
0230 PM WISDOM MT 0.50 INCH HAIL
07/16/01 BEAVERHEAD USFS REPORT
0305 PM HELENA MT 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/01 LEWIS AND CLARK
0315 PM 8 NW WOLF CREEK MT 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/01 LEWIS AND CLARK
0335 PM BOULDER MT 0.25 INCH HAIL
07/16/01 JEFFERSON
0415 PM 7 S EDEN MT 0.75 INCH HAIL
07/16/01 CASCADE
0415 PM 7 S EDEN MT 60 MPH TSTM GUST
07/16/01 CASCADE
NNNNMTZ008>010-012-014-015-044-046-048-049-052>055-170120- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 620 PM MDT MON JUL 16 2001 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLED FOR SOUTHWEST AND PORTIONS OF OF NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA... THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES HAVE BEEN CLEARED FROM THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH: BEAVERHEAD...GLACIER...CASCADE...LEWIS AND CLARK...MADISON...TOOLE...PONDERA...TETON...JEFFERSON...BROADWATER... MEAGHER...AND GALLATIN COUNTIES. THE THREAT FOR SEVERE WEATHER HAS MOVED EAST OF THE AFOREMENTIONED AREA. DS
The Billings radar (KBLX), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:39 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Actual spotter location Lewistown 10 S...Measured wind gust of 52 kt reported by ASOS at Lewistown Municipal Airport (occurring at same time).
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