Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Billings, MT

April 20, 1997Yellowstone County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1997, 4:17 PM MDT for Yellowstone County, Montana. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 20, 1997, 4:17 PM MDT (22:17 UTC)
Expired
Apr 20, 1997, 5:05 PM MDT
In force
48 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Yellowstone County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Apr 20, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Carbon, Stillwater48 min
Apr 20, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Yellowstone45 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.