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Red Flag Warning 18, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this red flag warning at Aug 30, 2012, 2:13 PM MDT for 7 counties in Montana. 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 30, 2012, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 2012, 9:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Beaverhead County, MT, Deer Lodge County, MT, Granite County, MT, Jefferson County, MT, Madison County, MT, Powell County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 154 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 2657 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
678 WWUS85 KMSO 302013 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 213 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2012 MTZ110-111-310600- /O.CAN.KMSO.FW.W.0017.000000T0000Z-120831T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.W.0018.120830T2013Z-120831T0600Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 213 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT FOR HIGH HAINES GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES ACROSS THE DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BE INCREASING LATER THIS AFTERNOON 15-20 MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH. * HAINES: 6 HIGH. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: HUMIDITIES LOWERING BACK INTO 7-13 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: WINDS WILL BE INCREASING THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN...THEN MIX INTO THE VALLEYS DURING THE AFTERNOON HOURS. CONDITIONS WILL BE IMPROVING AFTER NIGHTFALL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS INTENDED TO ALERT LAND MANAGERS TO EXPECTED WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT ALONG WITH SUFFICIENTLY DRY FUELS...WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE FIRE DANGER. && $$ MTZ109-310600- /O.CON.KMSO.FW.W.0017.000000T0000Z-120831T0600Z/ BITTERROOT- 213 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT FOR HIGH HAINES AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR THE UPPER SLOPES AND RIDGE TOPS ACROSS THE BITTERROOT... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL BE INCREASING LATER THIS AFTERNOON 12-18 MPH SUSTAINED WITH GUSTS UP TO 25 MPH OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. * HAINES: 6 HIGH. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: HUMIDITIES LOWERING BACK INTO 8-14 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. * TIMING: WINDS WILL BE INCREASING AND HUMIDITIES LOWERING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL BE IMPROVING AFTER NIGHTFALL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS INTENDED TO ALERT LAND MANAGERS TO EXPECTED WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT ALONG WITH SUFFICIENTLY DRY FUELS...WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE FIRE DANGER. && $$ IDZ103-310600- /O.CON.KMSO.FW.W.0017.000000T0000Z-120831T0600Z/ CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE- 113 PM PDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES FOR THE UPPER SLOPES AND RIDGE TOPS ACROSS THE CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM PDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 12-18 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 25 MPH FOR THE UPPER SLOPES AND RIDGE ACROSS THE CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE THIS AFTERNOON. LOWER ELEVATIONS... UPSLOPE/ UPCANYON 5-10 MPH. * HAINES: 5 MODERATE. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: UPPER SLOPES AND RIDGE TOPS...HUMIDITIES LOWERING BACK INTO 9-14 PERCENT RANGE THIS AFTERNOON. LOWER ELEVATIONS...13-20 PERCENT. * TIMING: WINDS WILL BE INCREASING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN LATER THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL BE IMPROVING AFTER NIGHTFALL. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A RED FLAG WARNING IS INTENDED TO ALERT LAND MANAGERS TO EXPECTED WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT ALONG WITH SUFFICIENTLY DRY FUELS...WILL SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE FIRE DANGER. && $$
1 follow-up statement
064 WWUS85 KMSO 310345 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 945 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2012 IDZ103-MTZ109-310445- /O.CAN.KMSO.FW.W.0017.000000T0000Z-120831T0600Z/ CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE-BITTERROOT- 945 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2012 /845 PM PDT THU AUG 30 2012/ ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE CLEARWATER/NEZ PERCE... BITTERROOT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. HUMIDITIES HAVE RECOVERED AND THE ATMOSPHERE STABILIZED ENOUGH THIS EVENING TO CANCEL RED FLAG WARNING. $$ MTZ110-111-310445- /O.CAN.KMSO.FW.W.0018.000000T0000Z-120831T0600Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 945 PM MDT THU AUG 30 2012 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED FOR THE DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. HUMIDITIES HAVE RECOVERED AND THE ATMOSPHERE STABILIZED ENOUGH THIS EVENING TO CANCEL RED FLAG WARNING. $$
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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.