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Special Weather Statement, NWS Missoula, MT

June 7, 2016Missoula County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this special weather statement at Jun 7, 2016, 1:38 PM MDT for Missoula County, Montana. It was in force for 22 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 7, 2016, 1:38 PM MDT (19:38 UTC)
Expired: Jun 7, 2016, 2:00 PM MDT
In force: 22 min
Issued by: NWS Missoula, MT

County Missoula County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:39 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

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 289 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -276 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2258 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jun 7, 4:09 AM MDT, 9 hours 29 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 4:09 AM MDT, 9 hours 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 7, 1:38 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
138 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

MTZ004-072000-
LOWER CLARK FORK REGION MT-
138 PM MDT TUE JUN 7 2016

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN MISSOULA COUNTY UNTIL 200
PM MDT...

AT 137 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
ALBERTON...OR 23 MILES NORTHWEST OF MISSOULA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
FRENCHTOWN AND HUSON.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4704 11444 4709 11443 4708 11427 4701 11430
TIME...MOT...LOC 1937Z 275DEG 12KT 4706 11440

The office that day

Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 6, 7:33 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Ravalli	42 min
Jun 6, 8:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Ravalli	31 min
Jun 7, 1:47 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Granite	58 min
Jun 7, 2:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	MSO	Deer Lodge, Granite, Powell, Silver Bow	60 min
Jun 7, 2:46 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Powell	44 min
Jun 7, 3:07 PM MDT	Flash Flood Watch	MSO	Deer Lodge, Granite, Powell, Silver Bow	4 hr
Jun 7, 3:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Silver Bow	13 min
Jun 7, 3:28 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MSO	Silver Bow	62 min
Jun 7, 3:45 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Powell	30 min
Jun 7, 4:17 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Lake	28 min
Jun 7, 5:48 PM MDT	Areal Flood Advisory	MSO	Silver Bow	57 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.