Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2016
Red Flag Warning 6, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this red flag warning at Aug 9, 2016, 3:14 AM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Aug 9, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 6 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
- Aug 9, 2016, 3:14 AM MDT (09:14 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 9, 2016, 3:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- 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 09:17 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 00:00Z, 9.2 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
- 75 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3220 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
289 WWUS85 KMSO 090914 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 314 AM MDT TUE AUG 9 2016 MTZ111-100300- /O.UPG.KMSO.FW.A.0004.160809T2100Z-160810T0300Z/ /O.NEW.KMSO.FW.W.0006.160809T2100Z-160810T0300Z/ EAST BEAVERHEAD- 314 AM MDT TUE AUG 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR LOW RH AND GUSTY WINDS FOR FIRE WEATHER ZONE 111... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 PM THIS AFTERNOON TO 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. * AFFECTED AREA: FIRE ZONE 111 (EAST BEAVERHEAD)...MAINLY FROM ENNIS SOUTH. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST 20 TO 30 MPH. * MINIMUM HUMIDITIES: 12 TO 18 PERCENT AT LOWER ELEVATIONS AND NEAR 20 PERCENT AT HIGH ELEVATIONS. * HAINES INDEX: 6 HIGH. * TIMING: WINDS WILL INCREASE BY EARLY AFTERNOON...PEAKING IN THE LATE AFTERNOON. THE MOST CRITICAL COMBINATION OF WINDS AND LOW RH WILL BE BETWEEN ROUGHLY 4PM AND 8PM. && $$
1 follow-up statement
340 WWUS85 KMSO 100256 RFWMSO URGENT - FIRE WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 856 PM MDT TUE AUG 9 2016 MTZ111-100400- /O.EXP.KMSO.FW.W.0006.000000T0000Z-160810T0300Z/ EAST BEAVERHEAD- 856 PM MDT TUE AUG 9 2016 ...RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 9 PM MDT THIS EVENING... WINDS WILL GRADUALLY DECREASE THROUGH THE EVENING, WITH RHS SLOWLY IMPROVING. && $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 6:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 35 min |
| Aug 8, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 8:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Ravalli | 36 min |
| Aug 8, 8:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 33 min |
| Aug 8, 9:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 25 min |
| Aug 8, 9:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Granite | 34 min |
| Aug 8, 10:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 29 min |
| Aug 8, 10:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Granite | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 11:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 36 min |
| Aug 9, 8:17 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 28 min |
| Aug 9, 11:39 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | 51 min | |
| Aug 9, 1:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Ravalli | 45 min |
| Aug 9, 1:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Ravalli | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 2:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 3:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 34 min |
| Aug 9, 3:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 4:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 33 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.