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Lake Wind Advisory 13, NWS Missoula, MT

September 2, 2022Flathead County, Lake County, Sanders County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this lake wind advisory at Sep 2, 2022, 5:02 PM MDT for Flathead County, Lake County, Sanders County, Montana. It took effect at Sep 3, 2022, 4:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 5 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 2022, 5:02 PM MDT (23:02 UTC)
In effect from
Sep 3, 2022, 4:00 PM MDT
Expired
Sep 3, 2022, 8:49 PM MDT
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT

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

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:02 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, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 149 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 2022-09-02Temperature 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 2022-09-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 13 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
2820 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 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 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 Sep 2, 2:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:20 PM MDT, 2 hours 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 1:14 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSOBeaverhead, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Glacier, Granite, Jefferson and 10 more52 hr

Nearby

Lake Wind Advisories in Montana, 2022Every lake wind advisory in 2022

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.