Tornado Warning 1, NWS Billings, MT

Issued

Jun 5, 1997, 8:00 PM MDT (02:00 UTC)

Expired

Jun 5, 1997, 8:35 PM MDT

In force

35 min

Issued by

NWS Billings, MT

Area

Whole counties

County Wheatland County, MT

The Billings radar (KBLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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.

000 
TTAA00 KBIL 060201
TORBIL
MTC107-060235-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
800 PM MDT THU JUN 5 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS MT HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 835 PM MDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL MONTANA

   ...NORTHEASTERN WHEATLAND COUNTY
 
AT 759 PM MDT...BILLINGS DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 7 MILES
NORTHEAST OF HARLOWTON MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED
BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR
LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

SCARLETT

NWS Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this tornado warning went out at Jun 5, 2:08 PM MDT, 5 hours 52 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
200 PM MDT THU JUN 05 1997

RAMSDIS SHOWING AREA OF OUTFLOW FROM EARLY STORMS THIS MORNING
INTERACTING WITH CONVERGENCE LINE ALONG EAST SLOPES...STORMS BEGINNING
TO DEVELOP OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF STATE. STORMS ALSO BEGINNING TO
DEVELOP OVER SC PORTIONS OF BIL CWA. DEWPOINTS IN 50S ACROSS THE STATE
WITH SIGNIFICANT WARMING OCCURRING OVER E PORTIONS WHERE CLOUD COVER
IS MINIMAL. TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE HOLDING OVER CENTRAL PORTIONS OF
STATE AND MODELS PROGG TROUGH TO STAY FAIRLY STATIONARY/WAFFLE NEXT
24-48HRS KEEPING CHANCE OF SVR IN FCST FOR FRIDAY. SOUNDINGS ALSO
CONTINUE TO SHOW AIR MASS DESTABLIZING WITH 1730Z SATELLITE SOUNDING
SHOWING LIS OF -4...EXPECT THIS TO CONTINUE THRU THE EVENING HOURS AS
MAXIMUM HEATING IS REACHED. TEMPS HOWEVER WILL BE SLIGHTLY COOLER AS A
RESULT OF OUTFLOW FROM EARLIER STORMS MOVES ACROSS THE AREA AND AS
STORMS KICK IN EXPECT OUTFLOW FROM DEVELOPING STORMS TO COOL FURTHER.
RIVERS CONTINUE TO RUN FULL IN SC MT WITH LVM NOW AT RECORD LEVELS...
FLOOD WARNINGS/WATCH/ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN EXTENDED THROUGH THE WEEKEND
AND EXPECTED THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE W PORTION OF CWA TO INCREASE FLOWS
EVEN FURTHER OVER NEXT 24HRS. UPDATED FLS SENT OUT AT 1PM THIS AFTN.
TEMPS TO BE FAIRLY SIMILAR FOR FRIDAY AS SYSTEM WAFFLES AS PER ABOVE.
SPRINGER

BIL TB 055/080 055/083 057 544342
LVM .. 053/080 053/082 ... 545353
HDN .. 052/082 055/085 ... 544342
MLS .. 059/084 062/088 ... 542232
4BQ .. 054/083 058/088 ... 542232
BHK .. 056/080 058/084 ... 542232
SHR TB 051/078 053/081 055 544342

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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.