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Winter Weather Advisory 1, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 2, 2021, 1:58 PM MST for 5 counties in Montana; Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It took effect at Jan 2, 2021, 5:00 PM MST. It was in force for 20 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 2, 2021, 1:58 PM MST (20:58 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 2, 2021, 5:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2021, 1:00 PM MST
- In force
- 20 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Flathead County, MT, Granite County, MT, Lake County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Ravalli County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:01 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 658 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 2, 3:19 AM MST, 10 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 2, 3:19 AM MST, 10 hours 39 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 3:16 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | Mineral, Missoula, Sanders | 33 hr |
| Jan 2, 1:37 PM MST | Wind Advisory | MSO | Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Missoula and 4 more | 27 hr |
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in Montana, 2021Winter Weather Advisories in Idaho, 2021Every winter weather advisory in 2021
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.