Alert archive / Montana / Wind Advisories in 2014
Wind Advisory 18, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this wind advisory at Jul 24, 2014, 5:25 AM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 24, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2014, 5:25 AM MDT (11:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 24, 2014, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2014, 9:36 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Flathead County, MT, Lake County, MT, Lincoln County, MT, Sanders County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1575 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -100 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
163 WWUS75 KMSO 241125 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 525 AM MDT THU JUL 24 2014 ...STRONG WINDS ACROSS NORTHWEST MONTANA BEGINNING THIS AFTERNOON... MTZ001>003-250600- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0017.000000T0000Z-140725T0600Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0018.140724T1800Z-140725T0600Z/ KOOTENAI/CABINET REGION-WEST GLACIER REGION- FLATHEAD/MISSION VALLEYS- 525 AM MDT THU JUL 24 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO MIDNIGHT MDT TONIGHT. * IMPACTS/TIMING: WINDS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE THIS MORNING AND BECOME GUSTY THIS AFTERNOON IN NORTHWEST MONTANA. GUSTY WINDS THIS AFTERNOON WILL CREATE HAZARDOUS WAVE CONDITIONS ON FLATHEAD LAKE AND IMPACT TRAVEL OVER LOGAN PASS IN GLACIER PARK. WINDS WILL DISSIPATE FOR MUCH OF THE REGION BY LATE THIS EVENING. * WINDS: BECOMING SOUTHWEST 15 TO 25 MPH GUSTING TO 35 MPH DURING THE EARLY AFTERNOON...INCREASING 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 40 MPH. OVER LOGAN PASS SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH GUSTING TO 60 MPH THIS AFTERNOON. * WAVES: 2 TO 4 FOOT WAVES ON FLATHEAD LAKE. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...HIGHWAY 2 KALISPELL TO LIBBY... HIGHWAY 37 EUREKA TO LIBBY...HIGHWAY 56 BULL LAKE ROAD... HIGHWAY 93 EUREKA TO WHITEFISH...BAD ROCK CANYON...ESSEX... HIGHWAY 83 BIGFORK TO SWAN LAKE...MARIAS PASS...POLEBRIDGE... FLATHEAD LAKE...FLATHEAD VALLEY...MISSION VALLEY...POLSON PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A WIND ADVISORY MEANS THAT WINDS OF 35 MPH ARE EXPECTED. WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$
1 follow-up statement
759 WWUS75 KMSO 250336 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 936 PM MDT THU JUL 24 2014 MTZ001>003-250445- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0018.000000T0000Z-140725T0600Z/ KOOTENAI/CABINET REGION-WEST GLACIER REGION- FLATHEAD/MISSION VALLEYS- 936 PM MDT THU JUL 24 2014 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... BREEZY CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST FOR A FEW MORE HOURS. BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS HAS PASSED AND THUS THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lincoln, Sanders | 36 min |
| Jul 23, 6:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lincoln | 47 min |
| Jul 23, 6:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Lincoln | 48 min |
| Jul 23, 7:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Powell | 29 min |
| Jul 23, 7:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Silver Bow | 36 min |
| Jul 23, 8:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | 28 min | |
| Jul 23, 8:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Powell | 23 min |
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.