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Areal Flood Warning 39, NWS Missoula, MT

June 8, 2011Lincoln County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this areal flood warning at Jun 8, 2011, 11:59 AM MDT for Lincoln County, Montana. It was in force for 21 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
Jun 8, 2011, 11:59 AM MDT (17:59 UTC)
Expired
Jun 9, 2011, 8:35 AM MDT
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Lincoln County, MT

The radar

The Spokane radar (KOTX), 191 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 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, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 377 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2011-06-08Temperature 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2011-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
689 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 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 areal flood 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 areal flood warning went out at Jun 7, 2:24 PM MDT, 21 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:24 PM MDT, 21 hours 35 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 7, 6:05 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningMSOFlathead24 hr
Jun 8, 4:21 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningMSOMineral, Missoula4 days
Jun 8, 7:04 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningMSOFlathead24 hr
Jun 8, 9:09 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningMSOLincoln24 hr
Jun 8, 11:30 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningMSOFlathead7 days

Nearby

Areal Flood Warnings in Montana, 2011Every areal flood warning in 2011

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.