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High Wind Warning 3, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this high wind warning at Dec 19, 2016, 1:04 PM PST for Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It took effect at Dec 20, 2016, 1:00 AM PST. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 19, 2016, 1:04 PM PST (21:04 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2016, 1:00 AM PST
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2016, 1:45 AM PST
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:06 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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 172 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
- 1380 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 78 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 445 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 608 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
519 WWUS75 KMSO 192104 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 204 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 IDZ007-201800- /O.NEW.KMSO.HW.W.0003.161220T0900Z-161220T1800Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 104 PM PST MON DEC 19 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 10 AM PST TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE CAMAS PRAIRIE...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 10 AM PST TUESDAY. * IMPACTS/TIMING: WINDS INCREASING AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND THEN SLOWLY DECREASING BY LATE TUESDAY MORNING. DAMAGING WINDS MOST LIKELY BETWEEN DAWN AND MID-MORNING. LOCAL RESTRICTED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING SNOW. * WINDS: SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST INCREASING BY DAWN TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE: CAMAS PRAIRIE, GRANGEVILLE AND VICINITY. $$ MTZ007-200000- /O.CON.KMSO.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-161220T0000Z/ BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- 204 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON... * IMPACTS/TIMING: WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON FROM GARRISON JUNCTION THROUGH ANACONDA. SOUTHERLY TO SOUTHWESTERLY WINDS WITH HIGHER GUSTS FROM THE WEST WILL MAKING DRIVING ON INTERSTATE 90 DIFFICULT IN THIS AREA. ALSO SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW IS POSSIBLE. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST TO SOUTH 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS 40 TO 50 MPH AT TIMES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE: BUTTE, GEORGETOWN LAKE, HIGHWAY 12 GARRISON TO ELLISTON, HOMESTAKE PASS, AND MACDONALD PASS $$
2 follow-up statements
531 WWUS75 KMSO 192324 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 424 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 MTZ007-200030- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0011.000000T0000Z-161220T0000Z/ BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- 424 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. $$ IDZ007-201800- /O.CON.KMSO.HW.W.0003.161220T0900Z-161220T1800Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 324 PM PST MON DEC 19 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 1 AM TO 10 AM PST TUESDAY... * IMPACTS/TIMING: WINDS INCREASING AFTER MIDNIGHT TONIGHT AND THEN SLOWLY DECREASING BY LATE TUESDAY MORNING. DAMAGING WINDS MOST LIKELY BETWEEN DAWN AND MID-MORNING. LOCAL RESTRICTED VISIBILITY IN BLOWING SNOW. * WINDS: SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST INCREASING BY DAWN TO 40 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE: CAMAS PRAIRIE, GRANGEVILLE AND VICINITY, AND GREER GRADE $$
245 WWUS75 KMSO 200945 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 245 AM MST TUE DEC 20 2016 IDZ007-201045- /O.CAN.KMSO.HW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-161220T1800Z/ OROFINO/GRANGEVILLE REGION- 145 AM PST TUE DEC 20 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IS REPLACED BY WINTER STORM WARNING FOR BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WITH HIGH WINDS ... THE HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH A WINTER STORM WARNING. HIGH WINDS ARE STILL EXPECTED, HOWEVER, WEBCAMS ARE ALREADY SHOWING BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW THIS MORNING WITH MORE SNOW INCOMING, SO IT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO A WINTER STORM WARNING. $$ MTZ007-210000- /O.NEW.KMSO.HW.W.0004.161220T1200Z-161221T0000Z/ BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- 245 AM MST TUE DEC 20 2016 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON FOR... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A HIGH WIND WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM MST THIS AFTERNOON. * IMPACTS/TIMING: STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THIS MORNING FROM 6 AM THROUGH NOON WITH CROSS WINDS ON INTERSTATE 90 CAUSING DIFFICULT DRIVING CONDITIONS FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES FROM GARRISON JUNCTION TO ANACONDA. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 40 MPH WITH WESTERLY WIND GUSTS TO 60 MPH. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 3:14 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | MSO | Clearwater, Idaho | 10 hr |
| Dec 19, 10:59 AM PST | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Lewis | 91 min |
| Dec 19, 1:01 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | Clearwater, Idaho | 28 hr |
| Dec 19, 1:01 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | Idaho, Lemhi | 34 hr |
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.