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Fire Weather Watch 4, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this fire weather watch at Aug 8, 2016, 2:06 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Aug 9, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2016, 2:06 PM MDT (20:06 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2016, 3:14 AM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Beaverhead County, MT, Jefferson County, MT, Madison County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 200 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:04 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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 246 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
- 1661 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather 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 fire weather watch went out at Aug 8, 3:31 AM MDT, 10 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 3:31 AM MDT, 10 hours 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 6:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Flathead | 39 min |
| Aug 8, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Granite | 31 min |
| Aug 8, 5:37 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MSO | Granite | 53 min |
| Aug 8, 5:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 45 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.