1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 7:40 PM MST, 20 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
840 PM MDT SAT JUL 6 2002
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR SUN...MON...TUE...
ANALYSIS OF UPPER AIR CONTINUES TO SHOW SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. FAIRLY
LIGHT FLOW AT THE 700 MB LEVEL AND BELOW. THUS...THUNDERSTORMS SO FAR
HAVE BEEN BASICALLY STACKED. LOOKING AT SATELLITE AND RADAR
DEPICTIONS...MORE STORMS COULD AFFECT THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. FOR THE
NOW...BELIEVE THAT TIMING THEM TO END MAY NOT BE WISE. TEMPERATURES
LOOK REASONABLE FOR TONIGHT. AM NOT PLANNING UPDATES AT THIS TIME. CHB
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR WED...THU...FRI...SAT...
MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN OK AGREEMENT OVERALL. RIDGE WILL REBOUND INTO
ZONES WITH A VENGEANCE WEDNESDAY. MOST MODELS HAVE 597 DM HEIGHTS
PUSHING INTO SOUTHERN MONTANA. WILL BUMP UP TEMPS FOR WEDNESDAY AS IT
LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER SCORCHER. FOR THURSDAY AND BEYOND...MODELS AGAIN IN
GOOD AGREEMENT WITH RIDGE FLATTENING DOWN AS H5 HEIGHTS LOWER SOME.
WILL GO WITH A SLIGHT COOLING TREND THROUGH THE LATER PERIODS...BUT
TEMPS WILL STILL BE HOT. WILL KEEP FORECAST DRY AS SEE LITTLE IN WAY OF
PRECIP CHANCES WITH DRY WESTERLY FLOW. SCARLETT
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
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BIL 062/092 066/097 057/090 056/095 060/093 062/090 062/090
33/T 20/G 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
LVM 055/087 056/092 049/087 051/091 052/089 054/089 054/089
33/T 23/T 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
HDN 060/095 065/099 055/093 056/097 059/094 060/092 060/092
33/T 20/G 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
MLS 066/094 069/099 058/093 058/098 062/094 063/091 063/091
33/T 30/G 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
4BQ 064/094 068/099 057/092 057/095 061/093 062/090 062/090
33/T 30/G 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
BHK 065/093 068/097 059/089 055/092 059/090 060/088 060/088
33/T 30/G 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
SHR 060/096 066/098 055/090 056/094 055/092 056/089 056/089
33/T 20/G 30/U 00/U 00/U 00/U 00/U
.BYZ...
MT...NONE.
WY...NONE.The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 231 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:58 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Powderville Road closed due to flash flooding. 2-3 inches of rain in less than one hour.
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