Very warm temperatures and light winds were seen as monsoonal moisture made its way north along the Rockies. Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms were seen.
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The episode as NWS TFX wrote it up.
Very warm temperatures and light winds were seen as monsoonal moisture made its way north along the Rockies. Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms were seen.
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 30, 5:00 PM MST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 600 PM MDT Wed Jul 30 2014 UPDATE TO AVIATION .DISCUSSION... Tonight through Wednesday...a rather simple summer like forecast expected over the next week. Overall...very warm temperatures and isolated/scattered thunderstorms are expected across the entire region over the next week. An upper level ridge of high pressure will be over the region...with weak upper level disturbances/monsoonal moisture moving through the region. Thus isolated/scattered thunderstorms are possible each day...with the best chance for any thunderstorms occurring over the Rocky Mountain Front and Southwest MT. Temperatures will remain on the very warm/hot side through the period...with any cooling of afternoon temperatures being very minimal. Brusda && .AVIATION... UPDATED 00Z. VFR conditions will prevail through this TAF period. Isolated showers and thunderstorms will continue to develop and move across the area until sunset when thermal convection will cut off any overnight precipitation potential. Ceilings and visibilities may drop briefly near any shower or thunderstorm...that may also produce gusty erratic winds. Suk && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GTF 59 94 58 91 / 20 10 10 10 CTB 53 92 53 86 / 20 20 10 20 HLN 59 94 59 92 / 20 20 10 20 BZN 52 91 52 90 / 20 20 20 20 WEY 40 80 42 79 / 30 30 30 40 DLN 51 88 53 86 / 30 30 20 30 HVR 56 98 57 95 / 0 10 10 10 LWT 56 91 56 89 / 0 10 10 20 && .TFX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. && weather.gov/greatfalls www.twitter.com/NWSGreatFalls www.facebook.com/NWSGreatFalls
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 185 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:04 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
High wind gusts, measured at 56KT (64MPH), were reported at the Logan Pass Visitor's Center in Glacier National Park.
A funnel cloud was reported.
A very small and brief tornado was reported to have touched down 18 mi E of Fort Belknap.
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