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Winter Storm Warning 12, NWS Missoula, MT

November 3, 2022Granite County, Missoula County, Ravalli County, Montana; Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho

NWS Missoula, MT issued this winter storm warning at Nov 3, 2022, 12:09 PM MDT for Granite County, Missoula County, Ravalli County, Montana; Clearwater County, Idaho County, Idaho. It took effect at Nov 4, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 24 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 3, 2022, 12:09 PM MDT (18:09 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 4, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Nov 5, 2022, 12:00 PM MDT
In force
24 hr
Issued by
NWS Missoula, MT

Counties Clearwater County, ID, Idaho County, ID, Granite County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Ravalli County, MT

The radar

The Missoula radar (KMSX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:10 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 202 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 2022-11-03Temperature 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 2022-11-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
811 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
46 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 storm warning 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 storm warning went out at Nov 3, 2:37 AM MDT, 9 hours 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 3, 2:37 AM MDT, 9 hours 32 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 2, 11:55 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryMSOFlathead, Lake, Sanders8 hr
Nov 3, 12:07 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchMSODeer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Missoula, Powell and 3 more20 hr
Nov 3, 12:09 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryMSOFlathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula and 2 more51 hr

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.