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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Missoula, MT

January 29, 2006Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho

NWS Missoula, MT issued this high wind warning at Jan 29, 2006, 8:54 AM PST for Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It took effect at Jan 29, 2006, 4:00 PM PST. It was in force for 10 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 29, 2006, 8:54 AM PST (16:54 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 29, 2006, 4:00 PM PST
Expired: Jan 30, 2006, 2:21 AM PST
In force: 10 hr
Issued by: NWS Missoula, MT

Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 172 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 824 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 176 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 134 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WWUS75 KMSO 291654
NPWMSO

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
954 AM MST SUN JAN 29 2006

IDZ007-008-300500-
/O.UPG.KMSO.HW.A.0002.060130T0000Z-060130T1800Z/
/O.NEW.KMSO.HW.W.0003.060130T0000Z-060130T1800Z/
OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION-
854 AM PST SUN JAN 29 2006

...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 AM
PST MONDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 4 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 10 AM
PST MONDAY. THE HIGH WIND WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. 

A STEEP SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM WILL
COMBINE WITH STRONG WINDS ALOFT TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY SOUTH
WINDS ACROSS THE CAMAS PRAIRIE AND SALMON RIVER AREA. SUSTAINED
SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE EXPECTED
THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL GRADUALLY TAPER
OFF BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT AROUND MIDDAY MONDAY.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN PRODUCE PROPERTY DAMAGE.

$$

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS75 KMSO 300445
NPWMSO

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
945 PM MST SUN JAN 29 2006

IDZ007-008-301030-
/O.CON.KMSO.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060130T1800Z/
OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION-
845 PM PST SUN JAN 29 2006

...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY...

A HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST MONDAY. 

A STEEP SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT AHEAD OF THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM
WILL BRING STRONG WINDS ALOFT DOWN TO THE SURFACE PRODUCING STRONG
AND GUSTY SOUTH WINDS ACROSS THE CAMAS PRAIRIE AND SALMON RIVER
AREA. SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60
MPH ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. WINDS
WILL GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT AROUND
MIDDAY MONDAY.

A HIGH WIND WARNING MEANS A HAZARDOUS HIGH WIND EVENT IS EXPECTED
OR OCCURRING. SUSTAINED WIND SPEEDS OF AT LEAST 40 MPH OR GUSTS
OF 58 MPH OR MORE CAN PRODUCE PROPERTY DAMAGE.

$$

000 
WWUS75 KMSO 301021
NPWMSO

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
321 AM MST MON JAN 30 2006


IDZ007-008-301800-
/O.CAN.KMSO.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-060130T1800Z/
/O.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0007.060130T1021Z-060130T1800Z/
OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION-
221 AM PST MON JAN 30 2006

...HIGH WIND WARNING IS CANCELLED...
...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 AM PST THIS MORNING. THE
HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELED. 

A STRONG SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENT IN ADVANCE OF A VIGOROUS
PACIFIC TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS
ACROSS THE CAMAS PRAIRIE AND SALMON RIVER AREA...ALTHOUGH NOT AS 
STRONG AS PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT. SUSTAINED SOUTHERLY WINDS OF 25 TO
35 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45 MPH ARE EXPECTED THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL
GRADUALLY TAPER OFF BEHIND THE PASSAGE OF A COLD FRONT AROUND
MIDDAY MONDAY.

A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS
THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH
PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION.

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 29, 12:20 AM PST	High Wind Watch	MSO	Clearwater, Idaho	9 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Idaho, 2006 Every high wind warning in 2006

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.