Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 30, 2016, 2:13 PM MDT for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 31, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 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 30, 2016, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 31, 2016, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 31, 2016, 8:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 8 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 20:13 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, 8.2 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
- 146 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
881 WWUS85 KMSO 302013 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 213 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016 MTZ110-111-010200- /O.UPG.KMSO.FW.A.0001.160731T1800Z-160801T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.W.0003.160731T1800Z-160801T0200Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 213 PM MDT SAT JUL 30 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON SUNDAY TO 8 PM MDT SUNDAY... THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONE 110 (DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD) FIRE ZONE 111 (EAST BEAVERHEAD) * WINDS: WESTERLY WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH RIDGE TOP WINDS FROM 25 TO 30 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WILL BE COMMON INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: 8 TO 14 PERCENT AT LOWER ELEVATIONS AND NEAR 20 PERCENT AT HIGH ELEVATIONS. * TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE AROUND NOON...PEAKING BY LATE AFTERNOON. THE MOST CRITICAL COMBINATION OF WINDS AND LOW RH WILL BE BETWEEN ROUGHLY 3PM AND 7PM. $$
1 follow-up statement
841 WWUS85 KMSO 010211 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 811 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 2016 MTZ110-111-020215- /O.EXP.KMSO.FW.W.0003.000000T0000Z-160801T0200Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.A.0002.160802T1800Z-160803T0300Z/ DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD-EAST BEAVERHEAD- 811 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 2016 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM MDT THIS EVENING... THE RED FLAG WARNING IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT FOR THIS EVENING. * WINDS HAVE BEGUN TO DECREASE WITH HUMIDITIES INCREASING SO THE RED FLAG WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER A FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NOW IN EFFECT FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONE 110 (DEERLODGE/WEST BEAVERHEAD) FIRE ZONE 111 (EAST BEAVERHEAD) FOR TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * WINDS: WESTERLY WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH RIDGE TOP WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: 7 TO 13 PERCENT AT LOWER ELEVATIONS AND 12 TO 17 PERCENT AT HIGH ELEVATIONS BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. $$ MTZ106-108-109-020215- /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.A.0002.160802T1800Z-160803T0300Z/ WEST LOLO-EAST LOLO-BITTERROOT- 811 PM MDT SUN JUL 31 2016 ...FIRE WEATHER WATCH IN EFFECT FROM TUESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING... * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONE 106 (WEST LOLO) FIRE ZONE 108 (EAST LOLO) FIRE ZONE 109 (BITTERROOT) * WINDS: WESTERLY WINDS 15 TO 25 MPH WITH RIDGE TOP WINDS FROM 25 TO 35 MPH. WIND GUSTS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: 10 TO 15 PERCENT AT LOWER ELEVATIONS AND 17 TO 22 PERCENT AT HIGH ELEVATIONS BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. $$
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.