Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 9, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT for Granite County, Powell County, Montana. It was in force for 25 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 9, 1995, 6:30 PM MDT (00:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 9, 1995, 6:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 25 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Granite County, MT, Powell County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 217 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
- 55 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -340 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2634 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 95 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 100033 RRA SVRMSO MTC039-077-100130- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 630 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 730 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA ...EASTERN GRANITE COUNTY...SOUTHERN POWELL COUNTY AT 630 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EAST-CENTRAL GRANITE COUNTY OR 15 MILES NORTH-NORTHEASOF PHILIPSBURG. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND WILMOVE INTO SOUTHERN POWELL COUNTY IN THE NEXT 15 MINUTES. THIS STORM IS VERY DANGEROUS. STRLONG DAMAGING WINDS TO 55 MPH...HAIL... HEAVY RAINS AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY. BELTZ
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, Jul 9, 12:45 PM MDT, 5 hours 45 minutes before
MTZ004-091945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1245 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING BEAVER HEAD COUNTY... AT 12:35 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF BEAVER HEAD COUNTY FROM IDAHO. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WILL PUT THE NORTHERN END OF THE LINE NEAR WISDOM, MONTANA AROUND 1:30 PM. THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE OF STORMS WILL BE NEAR DILLON AND INTERSTATE 15 ALSO AROUND 1:30 PM. RADAR INDICATES THE STORMS ARE QUITE STRONG. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY SHOULD EXPECT STRONG WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND WELL INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. WHITMORE/NWSO MSO
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 12:47 PM MDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
MTZ004-091945- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1245 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...FAST MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING BEAVER HEAD COUNTY... AT 12:35 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE NORTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF BEAVER HEAD COUNTY FROM IDAHO. THESE STORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS WILL PUT THE NORTHERN END OF THE LINE NEAR WISDOM, MONTANA AROUND 1:30 PM. THE SOUTHERN END OF THE LINE OF STORMS WILL BE NEAR DILLON AND INTERSTATE 15 ALSO AROUND 1:30 PM. RADAR INDICATES THE STORMS ARE QUITE STRONG. PERSONS IN THE VICINITY SHOULD EXPECT STRONG WIND GUSTS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...SMALL HAIL...AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OVER SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND WELL INTO THE NIGHTTIME HOURS. WHITMORE/NWSO MSO
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:55 PM MDT, 4 hours 35 minutes before
MTZ002-004-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 155 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA... AT 145 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING SILVER BOW COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MADISON COUNTY. THEY WERE JUST NORTHEAST OF THE TOWNS OF WISE RIVER AND DIVIDE AND EXTEND SOUTH TO NEAR DILLON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL A HALF INCH IN DIAMTER WAS REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT WISE RIVER AND DILLON. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECTED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR ALSO SHOWED AN AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAINSHOWERS OVER THE BITTERROOT RANGE ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MISSOULA AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL BE IN THE MISSOULA AREA BETWEEN 215 PM AND 300 PM MDT. GV &
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 1:59 PM MDT, 4 hours 31 minutes before
MTZ002-004-092045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 155 PM MDT SUN JUL 9 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA... AT 145 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING SILVER BOW COUNTY AND EXTREME NORTHWEST MADISON COUNTY. THEY WERE JUST NORTHEAST OF THE TOWNS OF WISE RIVER AND DIVIDE AND EXTEND SOUTH TO NEAR DILLON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. HAIL A HALF INCH IN DIAMTER WAS REPORTED WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS AT WISE RIVER AND DILLON. PEOPLE IN THE PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORMS CAN EXPECTED BRIEF HEAVY RAIN HAIL AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND GUSTY WINDS TO 50 MILES AN HOUR. DOPPLER RADAR^ ALSO SHOWED AN AREA OF MOSTLY LIGHT RAINSHOWERS OVER THE BITTERROOT RANGE ABOUT 35 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MISSOULA AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THEY WILL BE IN THE MISSOULA AREA BETWEEN 215 PM AND 300 PM MDT. GV &
Special weather statement, Jul 9, 6:15 PM MDT, 15 minutes before
MTZ001-100400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 615 PM MDT SUN JUL 09 1995 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ISSUED FOR WESTERN MONTANA INCLUDING FLATHEAD AND LINCOLN COUNTIES UNTIL 1000 PM THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS FORECAST CENTER HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FOR WESTERN MONTANA...INCLUDING BOTH FLATHEAD AND LINCOLN COUNTIES...UNTIL 1000 PM MDT TONIGHT. SOME OF THE CITIES IN THE WATCH AREA INCLUDE...LIBBY...THOMPSON FALLS...KALISPELL...POLSON...CUT BANK...MISSOULA...AND HAMILTON. AT 6:15 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING IN NORTHERN IDAHO AND LINCOLN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE IN THE IDAHO PANHANDLE AND MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT APPROXIMATELY 35 MPH...ANY WILL BE ENTERING NORTHWESTERN MONTANA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTH OF TROY...AND 2 MILES SOUTH OF LIBBY MONTANA. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATNING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR THE LATEST STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. END/JLP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 7:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lincoln | 50 min |
| Jul 9, 11:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Flathead | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 1:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Powell | 40 min |
| Jul 10, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Powell | 26 min |
| Jul 10, 2:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Deer Lodge | 36 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1995Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995
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.