Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 1995, 1:35 PM MDT for Powell County, Montana. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 10, 1995, 1:35 PM MDT (19:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 1995, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Powell County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -414 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1810 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 101935 RRA SVRMSO MTC077-102015- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 135 PM MDT MON JUL 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 215 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... ... IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA ...SOUTHERN POWELL COUNTY AT 1:35 MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ENTERING SOUTHERN POWELL COUNTY. THIS STORM IS 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DEER LODGE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...ABND DEADLY LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. WHITMORE/NWSO MSO
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
Local storm report, Jul 10, 7:55 AM MDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
MTZ001-101500-
LOCAL STORM REPORT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT
755 AM MDT MON JUL 10 1995
TIME(MDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
.....COUNTY LOCATION....
655 PM LINCOLN MT DOWNED POWER LINES AND
LIBBY (NE) LARGE TREES AND ROOFS BLOWN
OFF OF HOMES.
840 PM FLATHEAD MT OUTDOOR SOUND STAGE AND
BIG MTN SKI RESORT LARGE TENT BLEW OVER
NORTH OF WHITEFISH
UNKN FLATHEAD MT MANY TREES DOWN IN NORTH FORK
POLEBRIDGE AREA AREA OF GLACIER NATIONAL PARK.
UNKN LINCOLN MT SEVERAL LARGE TREES DOWN,
FORTINE STILL CHECKING DAMAGE
UNKN LINCOLN MT NUMEROUS POWER OUTAGES WITH
EUREKA CREWS WORKING THROUGH THE
NIGHT. MANY LARGE TREE LIMBS
AND SOME LARGE TREES DOWN.
NO REPORT OF PERSONAL DAMAGE.
END/CCCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 9, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Powell | 25 min |
| 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, 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
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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.