PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATE TO GLASGOW SECTION
 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GLASGOW MT
 837 PM MDT SUN JUN 17 2007
 
 ...PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...
 
 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN GLASGOW HAS CONDUCTED A
 PRELIMINARY DAMAGE SURVEY OF THE THUNDERSTORM THAT AFFECTED
 PHILLIPS...VALLEY AND MCCONE COUNTIES ON SATURDAY JUNE 16, 2007.
 THE SURVEY WAS BASED IN VALLEY COUNTY FROM HINSDALE THROUGH
 NASHUA.
 
 IN GLASGOW...SOUTHEASTERLY WINDS GUSTING TO 60 TO 65 MPH WERE
 AHEAD OF THE MAIN STORM AROUND 535 TO 540 PM. SMALL TREE LIMBS
 WERE REPORTED DOWN. BY 545 PM TO 555 PM THE MAIN PORTION OF THE
 STORM HIT WITH THE WIND SHIFTING TO THE NORTHWEST AND GOLFBALL
 SIZE HAIL (1.75") AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 70 MPH. HAIL QUICKLY
 DROPPED TO PEA AND PENNY SIZE AND LASTED FOR UP TO 10 MINUTES.
 APPROXIMATELY 30 TO 35 PERCENT OF THE HOMES ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF
 TOWN HAD SOME SORT OF DAMAGE...EITHER BROKEN WINDOWS...DAMAGED
 SHINGLES...BROKEN GUTTERS OR SKIRTING...TREES DOWN AND/OR PITTED
 SIDING. ON THE NORTH SIDE OF TOWN ABOUT 20 TO 25 PERCENT OF THE
 HOMES HAD SOME DAMAGE.
 
 IN RURAL AREAS OUTSIDE OF GLASGOW...THERE WERE SEVERAL COTTONWOOD
 TREES COMPLETELY UPROOTED. THE VERY SATURATED GROUND FROM WELL
 ABOVE NORMAL RAINFALL IN THE LAST 6 WEEKS CONTRIBUTED TO THESE
 TREES UPROOTING SO EASILY. SEVERAL HOMES AND BARNS HAD DAMAGE TO
 WINDOWS ON THE NORTH AND WEST SIDES OF THE BUILDINGS. ALSO A
 CAMPER WAS FLIPPED OVER AND SWING SETS BLOWN OVER. SEVERAL PEOPLE
 REPORTED THAT THEIR HORSES AND CATTLE WERE INJURED BY THE HAIL AND
 WIND WITH LARGE WELTS AND CUTS ON THEIR LEGS. SOME WOODEN ELECTRIC
 POLES WERE SNAPPED ON GALPIN ROAD AND THE DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT
 WITH A MEASURED 89 MPH NORTHWEST WIND REPORT 2 MILES SOUTH OF THAT
 LOCATION. NO SCOUR MARKS WERE FOUND IN THE LANDSCAPE NEAR THESE
 DAMAGED POWER POLES AND CROP DAMAGE FROM THE NORTHWEST WINDS AND
 HAIL WAS EXTENSIVE IN THIS AREA NORTH OF TIGER BUTTE ROAD.
 
 IN NASHUA...90 PERCENT OF THE HOMES HAD SOME FORM OF DAMAGE ON THE
 WEST AND/OR NORTH EXPOSURES OF THE HOMES FROM THE HIGH WINDS AND
 LARGE HAIL. A WEATHER OBSERVER JUST WEST OF NASHUA HAD A MEASURED
 89 MPH WIND GUST AT 612 PM. AT 620 PM THE FIRST GUSTS HIT NASHUA
 WITH GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL (1.75") REPORTED INITIALLY. THE HAIL
 CONTINUED FOR 10 MINUTES WITH MOST OF IT FROM PEA TO PENNY SIZE.
 THERE WERE DRIFTS UP TO 6 INCHES DEEP. THE SCHOOL IN NASHUA HAD
 SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO THE WINDOWS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SCHOOL.
 OTHER BUILDINGS AND HOMES HAD WINDOWS BROKEN...DAMAGE TO AIR
 CONDITIONERS...SHINGLE/GUTTER DAMAGE AND TREES OR LARGE LIMBS DOWN.
 
 TWO FUNNEL CLOUD REPORTS WERE RECEIVED...ONE NEAR VANDALIA...THE
 OTHER NEAR THE DAM ON FORT PECK LAKE. THE VANDALIA REPORT IS STILL
 UNCONFIRMED AT THIS TIME. THE FORT PECK LAKE REPORT WAS NOT A
 FUNNEL CLOUD OR TORNADO. A VIDEO OF THE STORM SHOWS SCUD CLOUDS BUT NO
 ROTATION AS THE SOUTHERN END OF THE STORM MOVED OVER THAT AREA.
 ALSO TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS IN DUCK CREEK DISCOUNTED THAT THERE WAS
 A FUNNEL CLOUD OR TORNADO.
 
 THE VANDALIA REPORT IS STILL BEING INVESTIGATED. NO SIGNIFICANT
 DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED IN THIS AREA. SOME WINDOWS AND SCREENS ON THE
 WESTERN PORTION OF BUILDINGS WERE DAMAGED OR BROKEN.
 
 CROP DAMAGE IS EXTENSIVE FROM THE TAMPICO AREA ALONG THE MILK
 RIVER THROUGH GLASGOW TO NASHUA. THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF
 FIELDS THAT WERE COMPLETELY DESTROYED. MUCH OF THE CROP ALONG THE
 MILK RIVER VALLEY WAS ALFALFA BUT THERE WERE SOME WHEAT AND CORN
 FIELDS AS WELL.
 
 VALLEY COUNTY DID AN AERIAL SURVEY OVER THE AREA ON SUNDAY
 MORNING TO ASSESS THE DAMAGE FROM THE AIR AND TO GET THE EXTENT OF
 THE FLOODING. RAINFALL IN THE ANTELOPE...BRAZIL AND WILLOW CREEK
 BASINS WERE ANYWHERE FROM 2 INCHES TO 6 INCHES. THE ANTELOPE CREEK
 BASIN HAD SIGNIFICANT FLOODING OCCURING THROUGH THE AREA WITH THE
 NORTH/SOUTH PORTION OF BILLINGSLEY ROAD COMPLETELY UNDERWATER FOR
 NEARLY A THIRD OF A MILE. A RANCH UPSTREAM OF THE ROAD IS
 SIGNIFICANTLY FLOODED AS WELL. MOST LIVESTOCK WAS MOVED TO A SAFER
 LOCATION ALTHOUGH A FEW STRAY CATTLE WERE STRANDED ON HIGHER
 GROUND IN THE FLOOD AREA.  
 
 GROUND SURVEY CONDUCTED BY TANJA FRANSEN, WARNING COORDINATION
 METEOROLOGIST AND RICK SEILER, VALLEY COUNTY DISASTER AND
 EMERGENCY SERVICES COORDINATOR