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Tornado Warning 7, NWS Billings, MT

June 22, 1996Powder River County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this tornado warning at Jun 22, 1996, 4:22 PM MDT for Powder River County, Montana. It was in force for 68 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jun 22, 1996, 4:22 PM MDT (22:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1996, 5:30 PM MDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Powder River County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 237 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:25 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 22, 5:00 PM MDTThunderstorm Wind 50Volberg, MT

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 262 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature 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, Rapid City, SD at 12:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 154 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
934 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
426 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 1:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Yellowstone65 min
Jun 22, 2:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn58 min
Jun 22, 2:22 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZBig Horn38 min
Jun 22, 2:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud, Treasure59 min
Jun 22, 2:59 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZBig Horn, Treasure31 min
Jun 22, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn61 min
Jun 22, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River61 min
Jun 22, 4:49 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZRosebud116 min
Jun 22, 5:07 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZTreasure2 hr
Jun 22, 5:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Powder River58 min
Jun 22, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZSheridan55 min

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.