Alert archive / Montana / Snow Advisories in 2008
Snow Advisory 3, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this snow advisory at Jan 9, 2008, 8:11 AM MST for Flathead County, Lake County, Sanders County, Montana. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 9, 2008, 8:11 AM MST (15:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 9, 2008, 10:50 AM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Flathead County, MT, Lake County, MT, Sanders County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:10 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, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 149 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
- 532 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -66 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this snow advisory 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 snow advisory went out at Jan 9, 3:58 AM MST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 3:58 AM MST, 4 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 9, 5:13 AM MST, 2 hours 58 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 513 AM MST WED JAN 9 2008 IDZ007>009-MTZ002-003-005-043-100015- OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION-LOWER HELLS CANYON/SALMON RIVER REGION- WESTERN LEMHI COUNTY-WEST GLACIER REGION-FLATHEAD/MISSION VALLEYS- MISSOULA/BITTERROOT VALLEYS-POTOMAC/SEELEY LAKE REGION- 513 AM MST WED JAN 9 2008 /413 AM PST WED JAN 9 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...NORTHWEST MONTANA AND WEST CENTRAL MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS A MOIST PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. VALLEY LOCATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO SEE LIGHT ACCUMULATIONS WITH THIS SYSTEM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER WINTER STORM WILL BRING PERIODS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOWFALL BEGINING THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY. ACCUMULATIONS MAY WARRANT THE ISSUANCE OF WINTER WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MTZ001-100015- KOOTENAI/CABINET REGION- 513 AM MST WED JAN 9 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST MONTANA. FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON WATCHES...WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES...GO TO WEATHER.GOV/MISSOULA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SNOW SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS A MOIST PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY ANOTHER WINTER STORM WILL BRING PERIODS OF LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOWFALL BEGINING THURSDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY. ACCUMULATIONS MAY WARRANT THE ISSUANCE OF WINTER WEATHER HIGHLIGHTS. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 3:56 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | MSO | Granite, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli, Sanders | 10 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:00 PM MST | Heavy Snow Warning | MSO | Granite, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli, Sanders | 47 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:00 PM MST | Snow Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula and 3 more | 55 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.