Alert archive / Idaho / Flood Watches in 2014
Flood Watch 1, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this flood watch at Mar 8, 2014, 9:19 AM MST for Ravalli County, Montana; Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It took effect at Mar 9, 2014, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 39 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 8, 2014, 9:19 AM MST (16:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 9, 2014, 6:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 10, 2014, 8:56 PM MDT
- In force
- 39 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Ravalli County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 125 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:21 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, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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
- 1050 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this 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 flood watch went out at Mar 7, 3:12 PM MST, 18 hours 7 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 7, 3:12 PM MST, 18 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 7, 10:46 PM MST | Areal Flood Warning | MSO | Flathead, Lake, Sanders | 63 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:04 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | Mineral, Missoula, Sanders | 7 hr |
| Mar 8, 12:31 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Lincoln, Mineral, Sanders | 24 hr |
| Mar 8, 9:27 AM MST | Wind Advisory | MSO | Clearwater, Idaho | 24 hr |
Nearby
Flood Watches in Idaho, 2014Flood Watches in Montana, 2014Every flood watch in 2014
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.