Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 1995, 1:59 PM MDT for Lake County, Montana. It was in force for 26 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 19, 1995, 1:59 PM MDT (19:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 19, 1995, 2:25 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1459 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMSO 191959 RRA SVRMSO MTC047-192045- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 159 PM MDT MON JUN 19 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA ...CENTRAL LAKE COUNTY MISSOULA DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF POLSON...THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 20 MILES AN HOUR. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.
What 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 19, 12:15 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
MTZ001-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1215 PM MDT MON JUN 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SANDERS AND LAKE COUNTIES... AT 1215 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE CITY OF RAVALLI IN LAKE COUNTY TO PERMA IN SANDERS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL, GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS VERY DEADLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION. FOSS
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
MTZ001-182100- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1215 PM MDT MON JUN 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SANDERS AND LAKE COUNTIES... AT 1215 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM THE CITY OF RAVALLI IN LAKE COUNTY TO PERMA IN SANDERS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL, GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAINS. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS VERY DEADLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION. FOSS
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:30 PM MDT, 1 hour 29 minutes before
MTZ001-192300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 1230 PM MDT MON JUN 19 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER WESTERN MONATANA THIS AFTERNOON... AT 1215 PM MDT THE MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS IN LAKE AND SANDERS COUNTIES MOVING TO THE NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. SKIES SHOULD BE MONITORED CLOSELY...AND IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER. MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. END/CCC
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:15 PM MDT, 44 minutes before
MTZ001-002-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 115 PM MDT MON JUN 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WESTERN MONTANA... AT 115 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SANDERS COUNTY AND MUCH OF LAKE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING THE CITY OF POLSON FROM THE SOUTH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTRMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS VERY DEADLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION. FOSS
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 1:26 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
MTZ001-002-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 115 PM MDT MON JUN 19 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER WESTERN MONTANA... AT 115 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN SANDERS COUNTY AND MUCH OF LAKE COUNTY. THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS WERE APPROACHING THE CITY OF POLSON FROM THE SOUTH. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTRMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL, STRONG GUSTY WINDS, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS VERY DEADLY. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND ADzDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION. FOSS
Nearby
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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.