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Special Weather Statement, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this special weather statement at Jun 26, 2019, 2:11 PM MDT for Mineral County, Montana. It was in force for 34 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 26, 2019, 2:11 PM MDT (20:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2019, 2:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
County Mineral County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 164 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
- 1831 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 Jun 26, 4:39 AM MDT, 9 hours 32 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 4:39 AM MDT, 9 hours 32 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 26, 1:59 PM MDT, 12 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Missoula MT 159 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2019 IDZ006-MTZ006-262030- Southern Clearwater Mountains ID-Bitterroot/Sapphire Mountains MT- 159 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2019 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR EAST CENTRAL IDAHO AND SOUTHWESTERN RAVALLI COUNTIES UNTIL 230 PM MDT/130 PM PDT/... At 158 PM MDT/1258 PM PDT/, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 35 miles southwest of Conner, or 47 miles southwest of Hamilton, moving northeast at 30 mph. Nickel size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. This storm will remain over mainly rural areas of east central Idaho and southwestern Ravalli Counties. LAT...LON 4564 11477 4571 11495 4593 11465 4583 11435 TIME...MOT...LOC 1958Z 225DEG 28KT 4572 11479
Special weather statement, Jun 26, 2:11 PM MDT, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Missoula MT 211 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2019 MTZ004-262045- Lower Clark Fork Region MT- 211 PM MDT Wed Jun 26 2019 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MINERAL AND WEST CENTRAL MISSOULA COUNTIES UNTIL 245 PM MDT... At 211 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 12 miles southeast of Tarkio, or 26 miles southeast of Superior, moving northeast at 15 mph. Nickel size hail and winds in excess of 40 mph will be possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Cyr. LAT...LON 4679 11464 4683 11472 4702 11460 4693 11438 TIME...MOT...LOC 2011Z 216DEG 13KT 4685 11463
The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 25, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 1:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Ravalli | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 2:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Granite | 37 min |
| Jun 26, 2:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Mineral | 32 min |
| Jun 26, 2:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Granite | 29 min |
| Jun 26, 2:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Ravalli | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 3:04 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Ravalli | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 3:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Ravalli | 26 min |
| Jun 26, 4:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Powell | 20 min |
| Jun 26, 4:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Missoula | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 5:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Clearwater | 44 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.