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 14, 2:00 PM MST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
300 PM MDT SUN JUL 14 2002
.SHORT TERM...INCOMING PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE TROUGH COLLIDING WITH
STRONG...HOT HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE THAT HAS BEEN ENTRENCHED OVER THE
STATE THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS. THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INCREASES LATE
THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING AS COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH TROUGH
PUSHES THROUGH...AND RIGHT REAR QUAD OF JET MAX BECOMES SITUATED OVER
CWA. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW INVERTED V CONFIGURATION WITH
PRECIPITABLE WATER OVER AN INCH THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SO EXPECT
SOME THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE WITH STRONG WIND...ALONG WITH
THE POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. FLOW BECOMES WEST-SOUTHWEST
MONDAY WITH A COUPLE OF SMALL DISTURBANCES PUSHING THROUGH. RESULT
SHOULD BE PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES ACROSS MOST OF THE CWA. BEHIND COLD
FRONT...TEMPERATURES TO BE 5 TO 10 DEGREES COOLER MONDAY WITH
ISOLATED SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY SOUTHWEST AS A DISTURBANCE
PUSHES THROUGH. ANOTHER PACIFIC TROUGH APPROACHES THE NORTHWEST COAST
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...AGAIN TURNING THE FLOW TO THE SOUTHWEST.
EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES WILL AGAIN BE STEERED ACROSS THE CWA FOR
ANOTHER CHANCE OF SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS.
.EXTENDED...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS AGAIN SHOWING A LITTLE CONSISTENCY
BUT NOT ENOUGH TO WARRANT HIGH CONFIDENCE. WILL NOT MAKE ANY
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE CURRENT EXTENDED FORECAST. WEAK RIDGING
THURSDAY OVER THE CWA WITH ENOUGH SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT FOR ISOLATED
CONVECTION. ZONAL FLOW ALOFT PERSISTS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WITH
ISOLATED CONVECTION STILL A POSSIBILITY. AN UPPER TROF MOVES
ONSHORE OF THE WEST COAST SUNDAY WITH AN INCREASING BACKING FLOW
OVER THE CWA. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL
NORMS.
.CCF NUMBERS
GTF BB 060/092 055/092 053 03411
BBBBB 088/053 087/053 088/053 090/053 090 23332222222
CTB BB 055/088 052/088 050 03211
BBBBB 084/050 084/050 086/050 088/050 088 13322111122
HLN BB 062/094 057/092 056 03411
BBBBB 090/054 087/054 088/054 090/054 090 33332222222
BZN BB 057/092 054/090 053 03422
BBBBB 088/050 086/050 087/050 090/050 090 33332222222
WEY BB 047/086 043/085 042 03422
BBBBB 083/042 083/042 084/042 086/042 086 33333333333
DLN BB 058/090 055/088 054 03422
BBBBB 086/051 085/051 086/051 090/051 090 33332222222
HVR BB 062/094 058/092 056 03411
BBBBB 089/055 086/055 088/055 091/055 091 13332211122
LWT BB 063/090 055/090 055 03421
BBBBB 087/055 086/055 087/055 090/055 090 13332222222=
.TFX...RED FLAG WARNING FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING FOR FIRE
ZONES 112...114...115...116...117...118.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN AND SOUTHWEST MONTANA.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A severe thunderstorm produced a 66 mph wind gust at the NWS office in Great Falls. Hail up to 0.75 inches was reported just south of town. Numerous power lines were knocked down, and several trees were uprooted.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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