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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Billings, MT

June 28, 2001Golden Valley County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2001, 7:13 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, Montana. It was in force for 62 min. 3 reports 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 28, 2001, 7:13 PM MDT (01:13 UTC)
Expired
Jun 28, 2001, 8:15 PM MDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Whole counties

County Golden Valley County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:14 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
Jun 28, 7:30 PM MDTHail 0.88Ryegate, MT
Jun 28, 7:30 PM MDTHail 0.88Ryegate, MT
Jun 28, 8:00 PM MDTHail 0.75Ryegate, 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
Jun 28, 4:30 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 28, 4:43 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 4:43 PM MDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 28, 2:48 PM MDT, 4 hours 25 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 6:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud66 min
Jun 28, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZYellowstone57 min
Jun 28, 6:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZWheatland60 min
Jun 28, 7:08 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZWheatland37 min
Jun 28, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZTreasure58 min
Jun 28, 7:34 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZGolden Valley26 min
Jun 28, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZMusselshell57 min
Jun 28, 8:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud59 min
Jun 28, 8:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZWheatland54 min
Jun 28, 9:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud50 min
Jun 28, 9:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZGolden Valley27 min
Jun 28, 9:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZTreasure, Yellowstone64 min
Jun 28, 9:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster58 min
Jun 28, 10:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZMusselshell32 min
Jun 28, 10:32 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZRosebud, Treasure58 min
Jun 28, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn60 min
Jun 28, 11:29 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZRosebud46 min
Jun 28, 11:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud46 min
Jun 29, 12:00 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster60 min
Jun 29, 12:16 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud74 min
Jun 29, 12:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster62 min
Jun 29, 1:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZTreasure60 min
Jun 29, 1:26 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River49 min
Jun 29, 1:30 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZRosebud60 min
Jun 29, 1:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster61 min
Jun 29, 2:15 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Powder River60 min
Jun 29, 2:58 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster62 min
Jun 29, 3:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter46 min
Jun 29, 4:34 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Fallon56 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.