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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Billings, MT

July 14, 2001Yellowstone County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT for Yellowstone County, Montana. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 14, 2001, 7:00 PM MDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2001, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
2 hr
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 01:04 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2001-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1706 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2001-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -13 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1706 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
2312 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS55 KBYZ 150100
FFWBIL
FFWBIL
MTC111-150300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
700 PM MDT SAT JUL 14 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN YELLOWSTONE COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA

* UNTIL 900 PM MDT

* AT 700 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE
  WARNED AREA.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND
IMMEDIATELY.

$$

LAT...LON 4619 10813 4554 10813 4549 10866 4570 10887
          4600 10878

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 14, 6:56 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZCarbon2 hr
Jul 14, 7:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn54 min
Jul 14, 7:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud56 min
Jul 14, 8:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZBig Horn115 min
Jul 14, 8:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster61 min
Jul 14, 11:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZCarter2 hr
Jul 15, 3:17 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZTreasure3 hr
Jul 15, 3:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZTreasure59 min
Jul 15, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River61 min
Jul 15, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter59 min
Jul 15, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter61 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.