Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1995, 12:07 PM MDT for Missoula County, Montana. It was in force for 53 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 7, 1995, 12:07 PM MDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 1995, 1:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Missoula County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 255 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
- 26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -646 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1623 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 253 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KMSO 071808 RRA SVRMSO MTC063-071900- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1207 PM MDT MON AUG 7 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... ... IN WEST CENTRAL MONTANA ...WESTERN MISSOULA COUNTY AT 1200 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALBERTON IN MISSOULA COUNTY. THIS STORN IS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND PRODUCING HEAVY RAINFALL WITH STRONG WINDS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. 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, Aug 7, 11:10 AM MDT, 57 minutes before
MTZ002-071910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1110 AM MDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN MONTANA... AT 1100 AM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER IDAHO AND MOVING INTO MINERAL COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO MISSOULA AND RAVALLI COUNTIES IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE AREA. SEEK SHELTER IF THESE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. HARMER
Special weather statement, Aug 7, 11:14 AM MDT, 53 minutes before
MTZ002-071910- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1110 AM MDT MON AUG 7 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO WESTERN MONTANA... AT 1100 AM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER IDAHO AND MOVING INTO MINERAL COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO MISSOULA AND RAVALLI COUNTIES IN THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THESE STORMS WERE PRODUCING DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND MAY BE ACCOMPANIEDx BY GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AS THEY PASS THROUGH THE AREA. SEEK SHELTER IF THESE STORMS APPROACH YOUR AREA. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR UPDATES ON THESE STORMS. HARMER
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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.