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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 91, NWS Billings, MT

July 31, 1998Big Horn County, Rosebud County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1998, 6:00 PM MDT for Big Horn County, Rosebud County, Montana. It was in force for 65 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
Jul 31, 1998, 6:00 PM MDT (00:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 31, 1998, 7:05 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Rosebud County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:01 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 31, 6:55 PM MDTHail 0.75Birney, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 31, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr

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
Jul 31, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River, Rosebud60 min
Jul 31, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River60 min
Aug 1, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter62 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 1998Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.