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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Missoula, MT

June 25, 2010Deer Lodge County, Granite County, Silver Bow County, Montana; Lemhi County, Idaho

NWS Missoula, MT issued this flash flood watch at Jun 25, 2010, 9:39 AM MDT for Deer Lodge County, Granite County, Silver Bow County, Montana; Lemhi County, Idaho. It took effect at Jun 25, 2010, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 25, 2010, 9:39 AM MDT (15:39 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 25, 2010, 2:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jun 25, 2010, 8:51 PM MDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT
Flood severity
None

Counties Lemhi County, ID, Deer Lodge County, MT, Granite County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:40 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 316 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2010-06-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2010-06-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
2086 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 flash flood watch went out at Jun 25, 3:40 AM MDT, 5 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 3:40 AM MDT, 5 hours 59 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 2:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLewis48 min
Jun 25, 2:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOIdaho23 min
Jun 25, 3:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLewis42 min
Jun 25, 3:38 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMSOIdaho84 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.