Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this red flag warning at Aug 6, 2007, 9:30 AM MDT for 10 counties in Montana; Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It took effect at Aug 6, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Aug 6, 2007, 9:30 AM MDT (15:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 6, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2007, 8:23 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Beaverhead County, MT, Deer Lodge County, MT, Granite County, MT, Jefferson County, MT, Lewis and Clark County, MT, Madison County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Powell County, MT, Ravalli County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:31 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 253 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
- 1994 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS85 KMSO 061530 RFWMSO RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 930 AM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 IDZ103-MTZ108>111-062330- /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.W.0013.070806T1800Z-070807T0600Z/ CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE-EAST LOLO-BITTERROOT- DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 927 AM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 /827 AM PDT MON AUG 6 2007/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT NOON MDT/11 AM PDT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE...EAST LOLO...BITTERROOT...DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT. AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CENTERED OVER EASTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON WILL CREATE ENOUGH LIFT AND INSTABILITY TO PRODUCE HIGH BASED...MAINLY DRY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SIMILAR CONDITIONS TO SUNDAY ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTY AND ERRATIC OUTFLOW WINDS FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED TO CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN AND NEAR THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS AND CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING WILL CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. $$
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS85 KMSO 062043 RFWMSO RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 243 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 IDZ103-MTZ108>111-070600- /O.CON.KMSO.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070807T0600Z/ CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE-EAST LOLO-BITTERROOT- DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 243 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 /143 PM PDT MON AUG 6 2007/ ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE... EAST LOLO...BITTERROOT...DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD (ZONES 103...108-111)... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT /11 PM PDT/ TONIGHT. AN UPPER-LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ALONG THE WEST COAST CONTINUES TO USHER IN UPPER LEVEL MOISTURE AND UNSTABLE CONDITIONS. THIS SCENARIO WILL PRODUCE HIGH BASED...MAINLY DRY THUNDERSTORMS AND VIRGA SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SIMILAR CONDITIONS TO SUNDAY ARE EXPECTED WITH GUSTY AND ERRATIC OUTFLOW WINDS FROM SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALONG WITH CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING ARE EXPECTED TO CREATE DANGEROUS FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 15 TO 25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED IN AND NEAR THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. $$
000 WWUS85 KMSO 070223 RFWMSO RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 823 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 IDZ103-MTZ108>111-070330- /O.CAN.KMSO.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-070807T0600Z/ CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE-EAST LOLO-BITTERROOT- DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 823 PM MDT MON AUG 6 2007 /723 PM PDT MON AUG 6 2007/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE... EAST LOLO...BITTERROOT...DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELED THE RED FLAG WARNING. HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS STREWN ACROSS CENTRAL IDAHO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING HAVE INHIBITED THE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL OVER THE WARNED AREA AND THUS RED FLAG CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER EXPECTED TODAY. $$ DICKERSON
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Montana, 2007Red Flag Warnings in Idaho, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007
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.