Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1995, 4:54 PM MDT for Granite County, Montana. It was in force for 21 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1995, 4:54 PM MDT (22:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1995, 5:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Granite County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 2451 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 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 262254 RRA SVRMSO BULLETIN-EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA, MT 454 PM MDT MON JUN 26 1995 MTC039-262315- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 445 PM MDT MON JUN 26 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 515 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA ...GRANITE COUNTY MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AT PHILLIPSBURG MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. LARGE HAIL...STRONG WIND...AND BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED FROM THIS STORM. 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. GV
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 26, 3:10 PM MDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
MTZ001-004-262205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 305 PM MDT MON JUN 26 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN MONTANA... A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED IN IDAHO AND WAS MOVING INTO MONTANA. AT 300 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORM NEAR PAINTED ROCKS LAKE OF SOUTHERN RAVALLI COUNTY. IT WAS PART OF A LARGER CLUSTER MOVING EASTWARD BETWEEN DARBY MONTANA AND SALMON IDAHO. PEA SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED AT SULA FROM ONE OF THE WEAKER THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE POTENTIAL FOR HAIL AND GUSTY WIND AS WELL AS DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. SEEK SHELTER FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS AND DO NOT TRY TO DRIVE THROUGH CREEKS IF WATER IS OVER THE ROAD. GV
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.