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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 2004, 1:52 PM MDT for Wheatland County, Montana. It was in force for 23 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
- Jun 22, 2004, 1:52 PM MDT (19:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 22, 2004, 2:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 23 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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 12:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 125 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -315 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1704 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 22, 9:33 AM MDT, 4 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 9:33 AM MDT, 4 hours 19 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 22, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Sweet Grass | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 3:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Stillwater | 66 min |
| Jun 22, 3:19 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Stillwater | 26 min |
| Jun 22, 3:43 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Stillwater | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 4:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 49 min |
| Jun 22, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carbon, Stillwater | 60 min |
| Jun 22, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carbon | 62 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.