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Special Weather Statement, NWS Missoula, MT

June 18, 2022Missoula County, Montana

NWS Missoula, MT issued this special weather statement at Jun 18, 2022, 2:12 PM MDT for Missoula County, Montana. It was in force for 48 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 18, 2022, 2:12 PM MDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 18, 2022, 3:00 PM MDT
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Missoula, MT
Hail: 0.88 in
Wind: 30

County Missoula County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 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 226 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -106 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -43 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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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 18, 2:05 PM MDT, 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 18, 2:05 PM MDT, 7 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
104 PM MDT SAT JUN 18 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0103 PM     HAIL             2 NNE MISSOULA          46.90N 113.97W
06/18/2022  E0.75 INCH       MISSOULA           MT   TRAINED SPOTTER

            THREE TO FOUR MINUTES OF PURE HAIL WITH
            LITTLE TO NO WIND.

&&

BEC

Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:07 PM MDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
107 PM MDT SAT JUN 18 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0107 PM     HAIL             3 NNE MISSOULA          46.91N 113.97W
06/18/2022  E1.00 INCH       MISSOULA           MT   TRAINED SPOTTER

            SPOTTER CALLED BACK AFTER FINDING HAIL OF 1
            INCH.

&&

BEC

Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:22 PM MDT, 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
122 PM MDT SAT JUN 18 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0121 PM     HAIL             2 WNW STEVENSVILLE      46.52N 114.13W
06/18/2022  E0.88 INCH       RAVALLI            MT   TRAINED SPOTTER

            WINDS 20-30 MPH AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

&&

Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:27 PM MDT, 45 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
127 PM MDT SAT JUN 18 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0127 PM     HAIL             2 WNW STEVENSVILLE      46.52N 114.13W
06/18/2022  E1.00 INCH       RAVALLI            MT   PUBLIC

&&

BEC

Local storm report, Jun 18, 1:28 PM MDT, 44 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT
128 PM MDT SAT JUN 18 2022

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0128 PM     HAIL             3 NNE STEVENSVILLE      46.56N 114.06W
06/18/2022  E1.00 INCH       RAVALLI            MT   NWS EMPLOYEE

&&

BEC

Special weather statement, Jun 18, 2:12 PM MDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 17, 6:14 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Flathead	16 min
Jun 17, 6:27 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Flathead	18 min
Jun 17, 6:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Lincoln	27 min
Jun 17, 8:20 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Flathead	10 min
Jun 17, 8:38 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Flathead	7 min
Jun 18, 12:22 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Flathead	23 min
Jun 18, 3:47 AM MDT	Wind Advisory	MSO	Deer Lodge, Granite, Powell, Silver Bow	17 hr
Jun 18, 4:49 AM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Lake	41 min
Jun 18, 12:24 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Ravalli	51 min
Jun 18, 12:44 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Powell	46 min
Jun 18, 12:49 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Missoula	41 min
Jun 18, 1:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	Missoula, Ravalli	32 min
Jun 18, 1:15 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	Lake, Missoula	45 min
Jun 18, 1:20 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	Powell	25 min
Jun 18, 1:34 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	Missoula	41 min

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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.