Alert archive / Montana / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 26, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this snow advisory at Mar 4, 2008, 4:54 PM MST for 5 counties in Montana. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 4, 2008, 4:54 PM MST (23:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 4, 2008, 10:41 PM MST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Granite County, MT, Mineral County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Ravalli County, MT, Sanders County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:56 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 289 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
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 9:33 AM MST | Snow Advisory | MSO | Clearwater, Idaho | 5 hr |
Nearby
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.