Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 16, 1996, 5:20 PM MDT for Ravalli County, Montana. It was in force for 55 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 16, 1996, 5:20 PM MDT (23:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 16, 1996, 6:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ravalli County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2908 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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.
NWS Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 16, 2:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 16, 2:04 PM MDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
...FLOOD WARNING FOR THE SALMON AT SALMON WILL CONTINUE INTO MONDAY...GAGE READ OF 6.9 AT 100 MP MDT. 88D SHOWING CONVECTIVE BUILD UP OVER DEER LODGE...SILVER BOW AND BEAVER HEAD COUNTY. MODELS SHOW A WEAK 85H-7H TROUGH MOVE ACROSS CWA BETWEEN 00-06Z MONDAY...EXPECTING MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON EVENING AS THIS FEATURE MOVES INTO THE AREA. EXPECTING THUNDERSTORMS TO BE MAINLY OVER MISSOULA COUNTY ON SOUTH IN SOUTHWEST MONTANA. MODELS INDICATING A MORE STABLE ATMOSPHERE OVER THE AREA ON TUESDAY...HOWEVER A COLD FRONT MOVES INTO NORTHWEST MONTANA AROUND 00Z TUESDAY AHEAD OF THE MAIN UPPER LEVEL LOW. MODELS BRING MAIN 5H LOW ONTO WASHINGTON/OREGON COAST BY 00Z TUESDAY...LOOKS LIKE BEST DYNAMICS AND MOISTURE WILL MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY MORNING. ...MODELS BRING 540 THICKNESSES INTO NORTHWEST MONTANA BY TUESDAY MORNING WITH 5H LOW. WILL MENTION SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE 7000 FEET TUESDAY MORNING. LOOK FOR WINDY CONPDITIONS DEVELOPING MONDAY NIGHT INTO TUESDAY. TC FCA 2365 050/074/044/058 LIB 2365 049/074/045/056 POL 2365 050/075/044/057 MSO 3355 052/077/044/061 HMM 4355 053/080/046/062 FN/04
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 1:25 PM MDT, 3 hours 55 minutes before
MTZ004-162015- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 115 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...RAIN SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER SOUTHERN BEAVERHEAD COUNTY... AT 115 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF RAIN SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL BEAVERHEAD COUNTY. THIS WEATHER ACTIVITY WAS IN THE VICINITY OF THE CLARK CANYON DAM AND WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM MAY REACH THE DILLON AREA WITHIN THE NEXT HOUR. REMEMBER THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE DANGEROUS....LIGHTNING KILLS. IF A THUNDERSTORM APPROACHES YOUR AREA SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. FOSS
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 2:46 PM MDT, 2 hours 34 minutes before
MTZ004-IDZ010-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 240 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER LEMHI COUNTY IN IDAHO AND BEAVERHEAD...DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTIES IN MONTANA... AT 230 PM MDT (130 PM PDT) WEATHER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN LEMHI COUNTY...IDAHO. A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM GIBBONSVILLE TO COBALT. THIS ACTIVITY WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO DEVELOPING OVER NORTHERN BEAVERHEAD COUNTY AND ALONG THE DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTY LINE. RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM FORMING IN THE VICINITY OF THE TOWN OF WISE RIVER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REMEMBER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. FOSS
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 3:44 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
MTZ004-IDZ010-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 345 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STORMS OVER LEMHI COUNTY IN IDAHO AND NORTHERN BEAVERHEAD...DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTIES IN MONTANA... AT 330 PM MDT (230 PM PDT) WEATHER RADAR A STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN LEMHI COUNTY 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GIBBONSVILLE...AND WILL BE IN THE GIBBONSVILLE AREA IN THE NEXT 20 TO 30 MINUTES. OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE OVER DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTIES IN MONTANA. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTING...SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATHp OF A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REMEMBER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. TC
Special weather statement, Jun 16, 4:57 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
MTZ004-IDZ010-162230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 445 PM MDT SUN JUN 16 1996 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STORMS OVER NORTHERN BEAVERHEAD...DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTIES IN MONTANA... AT 430 PM MDT DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN BEAVERHEAD COUNTY JUST EAST OF WISDOM...AND OTHER STORMS 5 MILES SOUTH OF ANACONDA AND NORTHWEST OF BUTTE ALONG THE DEER LODGE AND SILVER BOW COUNTY BORDERS. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FREQUENT LIGHTING...POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A THUNDERSTORM...SEEK SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. REMEMBER THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DEADLY LIGHTNING. STAY TUNED TO YOUR LOCAL MEDIA OR NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES. FELSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 9:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 50 min |
| Jun 15, 9:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lake, Missoula | 47 min |
| Jun 16, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Ravalli | 51 min |
| Jun 16, 5:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Ravalli | 75 min |
| Jun 16, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Ravalli | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 46 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.