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Winter Weather Advisory 40, NWS Missoula, MT

May 22, 20218 counties in Montana; Lemhi County, Idaho

NWS Missoula, MT issued this winter weather advisory at May 22, 2021, 2:13 PM MDT for 8 counties in Montana; Lemhi County, Idaho. It took effect at May 23, 2021, 4:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2021, 2:13 PM MDT (20:13 UTC)
In effect from
May 23, 2021, 4:00 AM MDT
Expired
May 23, 2021, 12:00 PM MDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT

Counties Lemhi County, ID, Deer Lodge County, MT, Flathead County, MT, Granite County, MT, Lake County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Powell County, MT, Ravalli County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:13 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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 247 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2021-05-22Temperature 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, Spokane, WA at 12:00Z on 2021-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 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
1833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
113 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 May 22, 3:02 AM MDT, 11 hours 11 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 22, 3:02 AM MDT, 11 hours 11 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 21, 8:31 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryMSODeer Lodge, Granite, Powell, Silver Bow3 hr
May 22, 3:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOClearwater47 min

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.