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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Missoula, MT

July 6, 2022Idaho County, Idaho

NWS Missoula, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 2022, 6:52 PM PDT for Idaho County, Idaho. It was in force for 23 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 2022, 6:52 PM PDT (01:52 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 2022, 7:15 PM PDT
In force
23 min
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Damage threat
Considerable
Hail
2.0 in
Wind
70.0 mph

County Idaho County, ID

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 175 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 218 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 00:00Z on 2022-07-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 322 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2022-07-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
322 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-21 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1676 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
143 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.9

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 6, 5:11 PM PDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 6, 6:02 PM PDT, 50 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 5:11 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSO34 min
Jul 6, 5:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOMissoula26 min
Jul 6, 7:51 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOSanders24 min
Jul 6, 8:06 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOSanders24 min
Jul 6, 8:25 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOSanders35 min
Jul 6, 9:05 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLincoln40 min
Jul 7, 5:58 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOSanders47 min
Jul 7, 7:20 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOSanders25 min
Jul 7, 1:52 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSO38 min
Jul 7, 3:10 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOSilver Bow35 min
Jul 7, 4:14 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOMissoula31 min
Jul 7, 4:26 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOPowell49 min
Jul 7, 4:55 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSOPowell20 min
Jul 6, 6:25 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMSOIdaho35 min
Jul 6, 9:19 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLewis41 min
Jul 7, 1:08 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLemhi37 min
Jul 7, 1:55 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementMSOLemhi35 min
Jul 7, 2:14 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMSOLemhi107 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.