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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Billings, MT

June 8, 1986Musselshell County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 1986, 4:49 PM MDT for Musselshell County, Montana. It was in force for 56 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 8, 1986, 4:49 PM MDT (22:49 UTC)
Expired: Jun 8, 1986, 5:45 PM MDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT
Area: Whole counties

County Musselshell County, MT

The radar

The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.

The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, Jun 8, 1:05 PM MDT, 3 hours 44 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:40 PM MDT, 2 hours 9 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 2:49 PM MDT, 2 hours before

^GTFSPSBIL
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
 250 PM MDT SUN JUNE 8 1986

 AT 245PM MDT RADAR INDICATED A HEAVY THUNDERSTORM JUST NORTHEAST
OF ABSAROKEE MONTANA. HAIL 5/8 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED
AT ABSAROKEE DURING THE PAST HALF HOUR.

NUMEROUS SMALL HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA ARE
INDICATED BY RADAR AT THIS TIME.

END

Special weather statement, Jun 8, 3:50 PM MDT, 59 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 7, 6:33 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley, Musselshell	57 min
Jun 8, 3:35 PM MDT	Tornado Warning	BYZ	Musselshell, Yellowstone	55 min
Jun 8, 4:49 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Big Horn, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone	56 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1986 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1986

Sources

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