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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Missoula, MT

June 3, 1995Missoula County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 1:49 PM MDT for Missoula County, Montana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 1:49 PM MDT (19:49 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 2:45 PM MDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Missoula County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -55 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-125 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1224 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-55 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-38 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KMSO 031950 RRA
SVRMSO
MTC063-077-032045-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
149 PM MDT SAT JUN 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA
 
   ...EASTERN MISSOULA COUNTY...WEST CENTRAL POWELL COUNTY
 
AT 1345 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10
MILES SOUTHEAST OF SEELEY LAKE MOVING WEST AT 5 TO 10 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.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 1:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOPowell26 min

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.