Alert archive / Montana / Lake Wind Advisories in 2019

Lake Wind Advisory 7, NWS Missoula, MT

July 26, 2019Flathead County, Lake County, Sanders County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this lake wind advisory at Jul 26, 2019, 12:59 PM MDT for Flathead County, Lake County, Sanders County, Montana. It took effect at Jul 27, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 2019, 12:59 PM MDT (18:59 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 27, 2019, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 27, 2019, 8:01 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT

Counties Flathead County, MT, Lake County, MT, Sanders County, MT

The nearest sounding before it

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 290 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2019-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2019-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2827 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake wind advisory 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 lake wind advisory went out at Jul 26, 3:24 AM MDT, 9 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 26, 3:24 AM MDT, 9 hours 35 minutes before
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <title>Service Notice</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="index.css">
</head>
<body>
  <main class="wrap">
    <section class="card" role="status" aria-live="polite">
      <div class="status" id="status">Temporary Notice</div>
      <h1 id="headline">This service is currently unavailable.</h1>
      <p id="message1">
        The site you requested is temporarily down for maintenance or an unexpected outage.
      </p>
      <p id="message2">
        Please try again in a few minutes.
      </p>
      <p class="small" id="detail">
        If you are an administrator, restore upstream service and remove the redirect/fallback rule when normal operations resume.
      </p>
    </section>
  </main>
  <script src="index.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 2:33 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSOBeaverhead, Jefferson, Madison, Silver Bow29 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Montana, 2019Every lake wind advisory in 2019

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.