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Area Forecast Discussion
Issued by NWS Glasgow, MT
Issued by NWS Glasgow, MT
192 FXUS65 KGGW 131934 AFDGGW Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Glasgow MT 134 PM MDT Sat Jul 13 2024 .DISCUSSION... AFTERNOON UPDATE: A corridor extending from the Glasgow area southeastward toward Glendive was upgraded to an Enhanced area of severe weather by the SPC earlier this morning. Given morning CAMS mostly showing similar solutions to this afternoon`s convection, SPC felt necessary to upgrade for the risk of large hail (in excess of 2 inches) and severe, damaging winds (possibly as high as 90 mph). For those present in and around Fort Peck Lake for the Gov Cup Walleye Tournament, sudden and erratic wind direction/speed changes are possible generally from a time range of 3pm to 6pm. Afterward, most of the CAMS show a linear MCS forming from the merging of previously discrete supercells. This appears to really look more like a bowing structure as the storms approach the I-94 corridor. Plenty of hazards in play tonight. More info to come as needed. Remain weather aware! -Enriquez PREVIOUS DISCUSSION: KEY MESSAGES: 1) Thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening. Some will become severe with damaging winds and large hail. Timing will range around 2PM to 11PM over the bulk of northeast Montana. 2) Hot conditions will continue into the weekend with the heat advisory extended in the far south into Saturday. WEATHER PATTERN OVERVIEW: Upper ridge will remain in place over the western half of the CONUS for the next several days. A cold front will arrive Sunday evening and drop temps off about 5-10 degrees through Wednesday. Heat will be back in sway by late next week with 100s creeping back in as the ridge to the west reestablishes itself. FORECAST CONFIDENCE & DEVIATIONS: The heat advisory currently for the bottom third of counties for Saturday has been left up due to momentum, but the cold air from the thunderstorms outflow yesterday has backed temps off for Saturday to a max of around 97 degrees which is probably too low for it. In addition, there is a chance that widespread thunderstorms in the early afternoon may produce enough cloud coverage to take the impact edge off the highs as well. Will be giving the day shift a chance to let it ride and the option to cancel it early if things do not look to be going that way. While Sunday does have temps reaching up to 100 degrees before the front arrives that evening, there is cooler temperatures Saturday night which will allow for some recovery in the heat risk. Therefore, will be delaying issuing an extension for Sunday for now. Keeping an eye to smoke models has allowed for some haze to sneak into the area over the next couple days. Air quality only remains moderate but will need to be monitored through the next several days. CAMs models for thunderstorms this afternoon have spread out the area being affected toward the south by about a county and half compared to 24 hours ago. They have also clumped the initiation of the storms around Noon to an hour or two after. However, there is an outlier in the HRRR which doesn`t bring storms through till nearly 6PM. It looks like mesoscale details such as lingering outflow boundaries from yesterday will be the deciding factor for this afternoon and this is adding quite a bit of uncertainty to timing and spatial placement of storms in addition to the strength of the heat. First 24 hours of PoPs were again updated to include a 50/50 blend of the SREF NPoP along with the NBM PPI01 in order to capture the afternoon thunderstorms better with the marginal threat for severe weather in the area. This bumped PoPs up from a meager 20%-30% to nearly 60% around the most certain areas. First 48 hours ended up getting a bump with the shrink stretch tool over the CWA for afternoon highs and overnight lows, as RTMA/URMA map passes are continuing to miss, skip, or average out ASOS/AWOS highs by roughly 2 to 4 degrees and this is clearly biasing baseline NBM downward compared to the reality of these 100 degree+ extremes which have occured over the last 2 days. GAH && .AVIATION... LAST UPDATE: 1930Z FLIGHT CAT RANGE: VFR - MVFR DISCUSSION and WINDS: Storms are again expected this afternoon and evening. Initially, discrete supercells can be expected across Phillips and Valley Counties. As the storms approach KGGW and surrounding areas (3pm to 5pm), the main threat will be large hail in excess of 2 inches and damaging winds. As the storm approaches KSDY and KGDV, the outflow associated with these storms will cause erratic and gusty winds possible in excess of 60 kt (5pm to 8pm). Winds after the storms will light and variable (after midnight local time), becoming more NW`ly Sunday afternoon at 5 to 10kt. DENSITY ALTITUDE: Afternoon highs could break 100 degrees in some places through Sunday. This will make for less dense air and lead to a need for increased power and longer runway takeoffs. -Enriquez && .GGW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Heat Advisory until 9 PM MDT this evening for Garfield-Petroleum- Prairie. && $$ weather.gov/glasgow