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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this high wind watch at Feb 23, 2024, 10:44 AM MST for 4 counties in Montana; Lemhi County, Idaho. It took effect at Feb 25, 2024, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2024, 10:44 AM MST (17:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2024, 12:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2024, 1:06 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Lemhi County, ID, Deer Lodge County, MT, Granite County, MT, Powell County, MT, Silver Bow County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 305 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 901 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Feb 23, 4:27 AM MST, 6 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 4:27 AM MST, 6 hours 17 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Missoula, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 10:03 AM MST | Winter Storm Watch | MSO | Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula and 3 more | 27 hr |
Nearby
High Wind Watches in Montana, 2024High Wind Watches in Idaho, 2024Every high wind watch in 2024
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.