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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 7, 2003, 8:48 PM MDT for Rosebud County, Montana. It was in force for 27 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
- Aug 7, 2003, 8:48 PM MDT (02:48 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2003, 9:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rosebud County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 2.8 hours before the alert went out and 221 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2102 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.2
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 Aug 7, 8:26 PM MDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 7, 8:26 PM MDT, 22 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 8:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 23 min |
| Aug 8, 4:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley | 30 min |
| Aug 8, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell | 32 min |
| Aug 8, 5:43 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Fallon | 62 min |
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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.