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Special Weather Statement, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this special weather statement at Jul 22, 2016, 2:37 PM MDT for Flathead County, Montana. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 22, 2016, 2:37 PM MDT (20:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2016, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
County Flathead County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 198 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 215 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
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -475 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2540 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Jul 22, 2:20 PM MDT, 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 22, 2:20 PM MDT, 17 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 22, 1:20 PM MDT, 1 hour 17 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
120 PM MDT FRI JUL 22 2016
MTZ001-222000-
KOOTENAI/CABINET REGION MT-
120 PM MDT FRI JUL 22 2016
...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR NORTH CENTRAL LINCOLN COUNTY
UNTIL 200 PM MDT...
AT 120 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 14
MILES NORTH OF LIBBY...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
PEA SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH
THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EUREKA AND REXFORD.
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 4888 11503 4848 11550 4858 11573 4900 11539
4900 11530
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 212DEG 27KT 4860 11556Special weather statement, Jul 22, 2:37 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:24 AM MDT | Lake Wind Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Lake, Sanders | 13 hr |
| Jul 22, 1:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Lincoln | 40 min |
| Jul 22, 2:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Flathead | 32 min |
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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.