Alert archive / Montana / Wind Advisories in 2016
Wind Advisory 2, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this wind advisory at Feb 28, 2016, 11:53 AM MST for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Feb 29, 2016, 11:00 AM MST. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2016, 11:53 AM MST (18:53 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 29, 2016, 11:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 29, 2016, 2:09 PM MST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Deer Lodge County, MT, Granite County, MT, Powell County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 225 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
- 1628 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 241 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 206 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
528 WWUS75 KMSO 281853 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 1153 AM MST SUN FEB 28 2016 MTZ007-291900- /O.NEW.KMSO.WI.Y.0002.160229T1800Z-160301T0000Z/ BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- 1153 AM MST SUN FEB 28 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 5 PM MST MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM TO 5 PM MST MONDAY. * IMPACTS/TIMING: WESTERLY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH A COLD FRONT RESULTING IN GUSTY CROSS-WINDS ALONG HIGHWAYS. * WINDS: WEST 25 TO 35 MPH. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...BUTTE...GEORGETOWN LAKE...HIGHWAY 12 GARRISON TO ELLISTON...HOMESTAKE PASS...MACDONALD PASS $$
1 follow-up statement
018 WWUS75 KMSO 292109 NPWMSO URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 209 PM MST MON FEB 29 2016 MTZ007-292215- /O.CAN.KMSO.WI.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-160301T0000Z/ BUTTE/BLACKFOOT REGION- 209 PM MST MON FEB 29 2016 ...WIND ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MISSOULA HAS CANCELLED THE WIND ADVISORY. BREEZY WINDS WILL CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON, BUT THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS IS DECREASING AND WINDS ARE NOT CURRENTLY STRONG ENOUGH TO MERIT AN ADVISORY, SO THE ADVISORY IS CANCELLED. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 11:52 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli and 1 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
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.