Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1999

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Missoula, MT

August 7, 1999Lincoln County, Sanders County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 1999, 6:52 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Sanders County, Montana. It was in force for 38 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
Aug 7, 1999, 6:52 PM MDT (00:52 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 1999, 7:30 PM MDT
In force
38 min
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Lincoln County, MT, Sanders County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 7, 3:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 356 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 1999-08-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 671 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 1999-08-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
671 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-36 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2636 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
4.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

The office that day

Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 9:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOMissoula62 min
Aug 7, 10:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOFlathead, Missoula, Powell40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1999Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1999

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.