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Winter Storm Warning 8, NWS Missoula, MT
NWS Missoula, MT issued this winter storm warning at Feb 27, 2024, 11:56 AM MST for Mineral County, Missoula County, Sanders County, Montana; Clearwater County, Idaho. It took effect at Feb 28, 2024, 2:00 AM MST. It was in force for 12 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
- Feb 27, 2024, 11:56 AM MST (18:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 28, 2024, 2:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2024, 2:12 PM MST
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Missoula, MT
Counties Clearwater County, ID, Mineral County, MT, Missoula County, MT, Sanders County, MT
The radar
The Missoula radar (KMSX), 72 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 127 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
- 1613 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 54 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 27, 1:41 AM MST, 10 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 27, 1:41 AM MST, 10 hours 15 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 26, 5:21 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | MSO | Flathead | 39 min |
| Feb 27, 11:56 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Sanders | 45 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:10 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | Granite, Missoula, Ravalli | 8 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:29 AM MST | High Wind Watch | MSO | Clearwater, Idaho | 33 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.