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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Missoula, MT

August 10, 2005Flathead County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2005, 6:34 PM MDT for Flathead County, Montana. It was in force for 41 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 2005, 6:34 PM MDT (00:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2005, 7:15 PM MDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Flathead County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 182 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 180 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, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2005-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 13 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 00:00Z on 2005-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
13 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3300 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS55 KMSO 110034
SVRMSO
MTC029-110115-
/O.NEW.KMSO.SV.W.0021.050811T0034Z-050811T0115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
634 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN FLATHEAD COUNTY IN NORTHWEST MONTANA

* UNTIL 715 PM MDT

* AT 629 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
  OLNEY...OR ABOUT 28 MILES NORTHWEST OF EVERGREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  POLEBRIDGE BY 700 PM MDT

DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH ARE LIKELY WITH THIS SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM. LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE...ALONG WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING
AND HEAVY RAIN. FOR YOUR PROTECTION...GO INDOORS AND STAY AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...MOVE TO A WELL PROTECTED AREA.

LAT...LON 4861 11469 4848 11455 4863 11383 4894 11441

$$
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS55 KMSO 110107
SVSMSO

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
706 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2005

MTC029-110115-
/O.CON.KMSO.SV.W.0021.000000T0000Z-050811T0115Z/
FLATHEAD MT-
706 PM MDT WED AUG 10 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 715 PM MDT FOR
NORTHERN FLATHEAD COUNTY...

AT 704 PM MDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A STRONG 
THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING PEA SIZE HAIL...HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS TO 
30 MPH. THIS STORM STILL HAS THE POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE 
HAIL AND WINDS UP TO 60 MPH. THE STORM IS  NEAR POLEBRIDGE...OR 
ABOUT 33 MILES NORTH OF EVERGREEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  POLEBRIDGE BY 715 PM MDT

LAT...LON 4861 11469 4848 11455 4863 11383 4894 11441

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOFlathead27 min
Aug 10, 8:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOLake26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.