NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK
0522 PM CDT Tue Jul 14 2026
AREAS AFFECTED...portions of central Montana
CONCERNING...Severe potential...Watch possible
VALID 142222Z - 142345Z
PROBABILITY OF WATCH ISSUANCE...60 percent
SUMMARY...Scattered thunderstorms should develop over the next few
hours, posing a severe gust threat. A WW issuance may be needed
pending greater storm coverage.
DISCUSSION...Hints at convective initiation (via the detection of
lightning with NLDN data) are underway along the eastern fringe of a
cloud shield overspreading the northern Rockies in association with
a 500 mb wind maximum grazing central MT. Here, ....... more