Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 3, 2016, 1:46 PM MDT for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 4, 2016, 2:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Jul 3, 2016, 1:46 PM MDT (19:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 4, 2016, 2:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 4, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 7 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 19:48 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, 7.8 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
- 1737 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
472 WWUS85 KMSO 031946 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 146 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 2016 MTZ110-111-042000- /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.W.0001.160704T2000Z-160705T0300Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 146 PM MDT SUN JUL 3 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 2 PM TO 9 PM MDT MONDAY FOR 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 FROM 2 PM TO 9 PM MDT MONDAY. * WINDS: WEST 15-25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH...ESPECIALLY ON EXPOSED RIDGES. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: 13-23 PERCENT. * THUNDERSTORMS: A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE FAR SOUTHERN BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST. * TIMING: WINDS WILL BEGIN TO INCREASE AROUND NOON...PEAKING IN THE LATE AFTERNOON. THE MOST CRITICAL COMBINATION OF WINDS AND RHS IS EXPECTED BETWEEN ROUGHLY 4PM AND 7PM. $$
2 follow-up statements
582 WWUS85 KMSO 042032 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 232 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2016 MTZ110-111-050300- /O.CON.KMSO.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160705T0300Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 232 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES ACROSS THE DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD... A RED FLAG WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. * WINDS: WEST 15-25 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 40 MPH...ESPECIALLY ON EXPOSED RIDGES. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: 13-23 PERCENT. * THUNDERSTORMS: A FEW THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE IN THE FAR SOUTHERN BEAVERHEAD NATIONAL FOREST. * TIMING: WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE THIS AFTERNOON...PEAKING IN THE LATE AFTERNOON TO EARLY EVENING. THE MOST CRITICAL COMBINATION OF WINDS AND RHS IS EXPECTED BETWEEN ROUGHLY 4PM AND 7PM. $$
978 WWUS85 KMSO 050257 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 857 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2016 MTZ110-111-050400- /O.EXP.KMSO.FW.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160705T0300Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 857 PM MDT MON JUL 4 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD...EAST BEAVERHEAD... THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 1:43 PM MDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Lake, Sanders | 7 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.