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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 10, 2006, 4:21 PM MDT for Lincoln County, Montana. It was in force for 45 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
- Jul 10, 2006, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2006, 5:06 PM MDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lincoln County, MT
The radar
The Spokane radar (KOTX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:21 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, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 4 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2700 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 101 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Jul 10, 3:03 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 10, 3:03 PM MDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 10, 12:52 PM MDT, 3 hours 29 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1252 PM MDT MON JUL 10 2006 MTZ003-110200- FLATHEAD/MISSION VALLEYS- 1252 PM MDT MON JUL 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MONTANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT ...A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... A LAKE WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR FLATHEAD LAKE THROUGH 8 PM THIS EVENING. PLEASE SEE GTFNPWMSO FOR FURTHER DETAILS. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD BE ALERT TO ERRATIC GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. IN ADDITION...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH EARLY THIS EVENING. HAZARDS WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP MAINLY OVER SOUTHWEST MONTANA TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MTZ001-002-007-043-110200- KOOTENAI/CABINET REGION-WEST GLACIER REGION- BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION-POTOMAC/SEELEY LAKE REGION- 1252 PM MDT MON JUL 10 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MONTANA AND WEST CENTRAL MONTANA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THIS EVENING. HAZARDS WITH THUNDERSTORMS TODAY WILL BE STRONG GUSTY WINDS...SMALL HAIL AND BRIEF HEAVY RAIN. IN ADDITION...A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL SET UP THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH THE PASSAGE OF A COOL FRONT. BOATERS ON AREA LAKES SHOULD BE ALERT TO ERRATIC GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP MAINLY OVER SOUTHWEST MONTANA TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 11:57 AM MDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Lake, Sanders | 6 hr |
| Jul 10, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Flathead | 36 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.