Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1995, 8:02 PM MDT for Flathead County, Montana. It was in force for 43 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 10, 1995, 8:02 PM MDT (02:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 1995, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Flathead County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 187 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 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 110201 RRA SVRMSO MTC029-110245- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 802 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... ... IN NORTHWEST MONTANA ...CENTRAL FLATHEAD COUNTY AT 8PM MDT A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER KALISPELL. A SPOTTER REPORTED UP TH NICKEL SIZED HAIL WITH THIS STORM. MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR...TOWARDS COLUMBIA FALLS MT. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUInLDING. 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 10, 6:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 42 minutes before
MTZ001-110030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 620 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY... AT 505 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERTORM 30 MILES NORTH OF SEELEY LAKE AND A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY IN SANDERS COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL BE MOVING INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY THIS BY 700 PM THIS EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS AND OTHER RECREATIONALISTS SHOULD MONITOR SKIES CLOSELY... AND IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. END/RP
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 6:26 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
MTZ001-110030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 620 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY... AT 505 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERTORM 30 MILES NORTH OF SEELEY LAKE AND A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS CURRENTLY IN SANDERS COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AND WILL BE MOVING INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY THIS BY 700 PM THIS EVENING. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS AND OTHER RECREATIONALISTS SHOULD MONITOR SKIES CLOSELY... AND IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. END/RP
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:20 PM MDT, 42 minutes before
MTZ001-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 720 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FLATHEAD AND LINCLON COUNTY... AT 705 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN AND MOVING INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST WITH THE STRONGEST CELLS 10 MILES NORTH OF LIBBY AND ANOTHER 10 MILES EAST OF KALISPELL. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS AND OTHER RECREATIONALISTS SHOULD MONITOR SKIES CLOSELY... AND IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. END/RP
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:30 PM MDT, 32 minutes before
MTZ001-120030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE KALISPELL MT 720 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO FLATHEAD AND LINCLON COUNTY... AT 705 PM MDT MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN AND MOVING INTO FLATHEAD COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST WITH THE STRONGEST CELLS 10 MILES NORTH OF LIBBY AND ANOTHER 10 MILES EAST OF KALISPELL. BRIEF HEAVY RAINS... GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS. BOATERS AND OTHER RECREATIONALISTS SHOULD MONITOR SKIES CLOSELY... AND IF THREATNING WEATHER APPROACHES...SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. LISTEN TO THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION ON NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS. END/RP
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:55 PM MDT, 7 minutes before
MTZ002-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 755 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MONTANA... AT 750 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MONTANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WESTERN MISSOULA COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF MISSOULA...AND SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RONAN. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN FRENCHTOWN REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL POWELL COUNTY WITH THE STRONGEST STORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OVANDO. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS A KILLER...IF THESE STORM APPROACH YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPDATES. MCGRATH
Special weather statement, Aug 10, 7:58 PM MDT, 4 minutes before
MTZ002-110300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 755 PM MDT THU AUG 10 1995 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MONTANA... AT 750 PM MDT...MISSOULA DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO SHOW STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL MONTANA. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE LOCATED OVER WESTERN MISSOULA COUNTY 10 MILES WEST OF MISSOULA...AND SOUTHERN LAKE COUNTY...10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RONAN. A WEATHER SPOTTER IN FRENCHTOWN REPORTED PEA SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH. SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING CAN BE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. ELSEWHERE...THUNDERSTORMS WERE OCCURRING OVER CENTRAL POWELL COUNTY WITH THE STRONGEST STORM 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OVANDO. ALL THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 30 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER LIGHTNING IS A KILLER...IF THESE STORM APPROACH YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR LOCAL RADIO OR TELEVISION STATIONS FOR FURTHER UPXDATES. MCGRATH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 8:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 28 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.