Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1988
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 1988, 2:16 PM MDT for Granite County, Missoula County, Montana. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 1988, 2:16 PM MDT (20:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 1988, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Granite County, MT, Missoula County, MT
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Great Falls, MT (KGTF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 199 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1556 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KMSO 272016
SVRMSO
MTC039-063-272115-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
216 PM MDT MON JUN 27 1988
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES
IN THE WEST CENTRAL PART OF MONTANA
GRANITE...EASTERN MISSOULA
RADAR AND PUBLIC REPORTS INDICATE HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO
EASTERN MISSOULA AND GRANINTE COUNTIES.. HAIL UP TO ONE INCH IN
DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED...
IF YOU ARE IN AN AREA THREATENED BY THE STORM..GO TO A REINFORECED
SHELTER AND PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY
RAIN AND LIGHTNING.
FURTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NECESSARY.
ENSLEY/GOENSWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 11:43 AM MDT, 2 hours 33 minutes before
<<<<<<<<^GTFSPSMSO SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1135 AM MON. JUNE 27 1988 THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING OVER THE BITTERROT MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING. AT THE CURRENT TIME THE MISSOULA WEATHER RADAR IS SHOWING SOME VERY STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 15 TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MISSOULA. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TOWARD MISSOULA.. AND SHOULD PASS ACROSS THE VALLEY IN THE NEXT 30 TO 40 MINUTES. THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WITH SOME BRIEFLY HEAVY RAINSHOWERS. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON.. OVER MISSOULA.. RAVALLI.. LAKE.. MINERAL.. AND GRANITE COUNTIES... PEOPLE IN WESTERN MONTANA SHOULD BE AWARE OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS DURQING THE AFTERNOON. FURTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED AS CONDTIONS WARRANT. GOENS/1742
Special weather statement, Jun 27, 12:21 PM MDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
<<<<<<<<^GTFSPSFCA SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 1115 AM MDT MON JUN 27 1988 THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING IN WESTERN MONTANA LATE THIS MORNING DUE TO ABUNDANT MOISTURE AND STRONG SURFACE HEATING. MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE QUITE STRONG AND MAY HAVE GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH AND SMALL HAIL. FUTHER STATEMENTS WILL BE ISSUED AS NEEDED. END MC
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.