Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1994, 4:25 PM MDT for Yellowstone County, Montana. It was in force for 80 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 5, 1994, 4:25 PM MDT (22:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 5, 1994, 5:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 80 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Yellowstone County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1124 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 287 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS1 KBIL 052227 SVRBYZ MTC111-052345- BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 425 PM MDT TUE JUL 5 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM MDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA ...SOUTHERN YELLOWSTONE COUNTY, INCLUDING THE CITY OF BILLINGS AT 424 PM MDT THE BILLINGS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE STILLWATER/YELLOWSTONE COUNTY LINE, ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF BILLINGS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO THE BILLINGS AREA AROUND 515 PM MDT. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS. DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS. KIECKBUSCH
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, Jul 5, 4:01 PM MDT, 24 minutes before
MTZ007-006-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 401 PM MDT TUE JUL 5 1994 AT 358 PM MDT THE BILLINGS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN STILLWATER COUNTY, ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN, SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST STILLWATER, NORTHWEST YELLOWSTONE AND SOUTHERN MUSSELSHELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS STORM UNTIL 500 PM MDT. KIECKBUSCH
Special weather statement, Jul 5, 4:02 PM MDT, 23 minutes before
MTZ007-006-052300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 401 PM MDT TUE JUL 5 1994 AT 358 PM MDT THE BILLINGS WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM IN STILLWATER COUNTY, ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLUMBUS. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH AND LIKELY PRODUCING BRIEF HEAVY RAIN, SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. PERSONS IN NORTHEAST STILLWATER, NORTHWEST YELLOWSTONE AND SOUTHERN MhUSSELSHELL COUNTIES SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THIS STORM UNTIL 500 PM MDT. KIECKBUSCH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 5:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Yellowstone | 61 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.