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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this fire weather watch at Jul 27, 2018, 7:43 AM MDT for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 27, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 2 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 27, 2018, 7:43 AM MDT (13:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 27, 2018, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 27, 2018, 2:07 PM MDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Flathead County, MT, Granite County, MT, Lewis and Clark County, MT, Mineral County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Powell County, MT, Sanders County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:47 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1125 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this fire weather watch 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 fire weather watch went out at Jul 27, 3:54 AM MDT, 3 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 3:54 AM MDT, 3 hours 49 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 27, 8:47 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Lake | 43 min |
| Jul 27, 2:07 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | Flathead, Granite, Lewis and Clark, Mineral, Missoula, Powell and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 57 min |
| Jul 27, 3:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 45 min |
| Jul 27, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Powell | 65 min |
| Jul 27, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Powell | 36 min |
| Jul 27, 5:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Deer Lodge, Powell | 53 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.