Alert archive / Montana / Wind Advisories in 2005
Wind Advisory 1, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this wind advisory at Sep 9, 2005, 12:34 PM PDT for Clearwater County, Idaho County, Lemhi County, Idaho; 4 counties in Montana. It was in force for 52 days.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 9, 2005, 12:34 PM PDT (19:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 31, 2005, 3:40 PM PST
- In force
- 52 days
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Lemhi County, ID, Deer Lodge County, MT, Granite County, MT, Powell County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:36 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 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 1952 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS75 KMSO 091934 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 134 PM MDT FRI SEP 9 2005 IDZ009-010-MTZ007-100000- /X.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0001.050909T1934Z-050910T0000Z/ WESTERN LEMHI COUNTY-EASTERN LEMHI COUNTY-BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHOUP...SALMON...LEADORE...ANACONDA... DEER LODGE...DRUMMOND...PHILIPSBURG 134 PM MDT FRI SEP 9 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR SILVER BOW COUNTY IN MONTANA AND LEMHI COUNTY IDAHO... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING. SOUTH WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH FREQUENT GUSTS BETWEEN 40 TO 50 MPH WILL OCCUR THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. THE COMBINATION OF STRONG WINDS ALOFT AND AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL ALLOW GUSTY STRONG WINDS TO OCCUR. IN ADDITION...THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA MAY ALLOW EVEN STRONGER ERRATIC WINDS TO OCCUR AT TIMES. A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WIND GUSTS OF 40 MPH OR HIGHER ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$ FELSCH
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS75 KMSO 092347 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 547 PM MDT FRI SEP 9 2005 IDZ009-010-MTZ007-100100- /X.EXP.KMSO.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-050910T0000Z/ WESTERN LEMHI COUNTY-EASTERN LEMHI COUNTY-BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...SHOUP...SALMON...LEADORE...ANACONDA... DEER LODGE...DRUMMOND...PHILIPSBURG 547 PM MDT FRI SEP 9 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT THIS EVENING... WINDS HAVE DIMINISHED IN THE BUTTE AND BLACKFOOT REGION AND ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE OVER LEMHI COUNTY. THEREFORE...THE WIND ADVISORY WILL EXPIRE AT 6 PM MDT. $$
000 WWUS75 KMSO 311856 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1156 AM MST MON OCT 31 2005 IDZ007-010100- /X.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0001.051031T1856Z-051101T0100Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...KOOSKIA 1056 AM PST MON OCT 31 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON FOR THE CAMAS PRAIRIE REGION IN NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM PST THIS AFTERNOON. STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM IS PRODUCING SOUTH WINDS 25 TO 35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ON THE CAMAS PRAIRIE. EXPECT THESE WINDS TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON BEFORE DIMINISHING THIS EVENING. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. $$
000 WWUS75 KMSO 312340 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 440 PM MST MON OCT 31 2005 IDZ007-010045- /X.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-051101T0100Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 340 PM PST MON OCT 31 2005 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. CONDITIONS ARE STILL BREEZY...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO WEAKEN THROUGH THE EVENING. $$
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.