Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 1995, 3:09 PM MDT for Ravalli County, Montana. It was in force for 41 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 1995, 3:09 PM MDT (21:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 1995, 3:50 PM MDT
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ravalli County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 773 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 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 152110 RRA SVRMSO MTC081-152200- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 309 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA ...NORTHERN RAVALLI COUNTY DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR IN MISSOULA HAS PICKED UP A LARGE THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTH OF HAMILTON MOVING NORTH AT ABOUT 30 MPH. SPOTTER IN HAMILTON REPORTED 1/2 INCH HAIL WITH 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.
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 15, 2:14 PM MDT, 55 minutes before
MTZ001-002-152210- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 210 PM MDT THU JUN 15 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED IN WESTERN MONTANA... THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO RUMBLE ACROSS WESTERN MONTANA THIS AFTERNOON. A LINE OF LIGHT SHOWERS HAS LINGERED ACROSS WESTERN MONTANA MUCH OF THE MORNING RUNNING FROM JUST WEST OF KALISPELL DOWN TO ABOUT SALMON IDAHO. WITH THE AFTERNOON HEATING...SOME OF THESE STORMS ARE NOW STARTING TO INTENSIFY. AT 200 PM MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG STORM ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DARBY MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 15 MILES PER HOUR. THIS STORM SHOULD MOVE INTO THE DARBY AND HAMILTON AREAS OVER THE NEXT HOUR BRINGING THE POSSIBILITY OF STRONG WINDS...LARGE HAIL...AND STRONG WINGS. ANOTHER STORM WAS ALSO INTENSIFYING NEAR RONAN...MOVING NORTHEAST TOWARD POLSON. THESE STORMS SHOULD CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. PERSONS IN ALL AREAS OF WESTERN MONTANA SHOULD STAY ALERT TO THE POSSIBILITY OF RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS AFTERNOON. THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG WINDS. IF THUNDERSTORMS APPROACH...SEEK SHELTER INDOORS. BARKER
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 46 min |
| Jun 15, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 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.