Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 1995, 2:32 PM MDT for Lake County, Montana. It was in force for 23 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 20, 1995, 2:32 PM MDT (20:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 20, 1995, 2:55 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Lake County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -294 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 66 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 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 202032 RRA SVRMSO MTC029-047-202115- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 232 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 315 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NORTHWEST MONTANA ...SOUTHEASTERN FLATHEAD COUNTY IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA ...EASTERN LAKE COUNTY AT 230 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTH OF SWAN LAKE IN EASTERN LAKE COUNTY. THIS IS NEAR THE SWAN RIVER STATE FOREST. THIS STORM IS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH...AND WILL MOVE INTO THE BOB MARSHALL WILDERNESS AREA BY 315 PM MDT. 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 PAjSSED. KRENZ/BARKER
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 20, 2:08 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
MTZ001-002-004-202205- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 205 PM MDT THU JUL 20 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN MONTANA... AT 200 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING ACROSS WESTERN MONTANA AND NORTHERN IDAHO. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE ON THE EAST SHORE OF FLATHEAD LAKE SOUTH OF BIGFORK...JUST WEST OF SEELY LAKE...AND NEAR LOST TRAIL PASS. ALL THESE STORMS ARE MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 20 MPH. THE STORM NEAR SEELY LAKE SHOULD AFFECT THE SEELY LAKE AREA BY 300 PM MDT. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. LIGHTING...BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS MAY BE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE STORMS. REMEMBER THAT LIGHTNING CAN KILL. DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A TREE DURING A THUNDERSTORM. END/BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 20, 2:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Flathead | 43 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.