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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 20, 2005, 3:57 AM MDT for Fallon County, Montana. It was in force for 64 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 20, 2005, 3:57 AM MDT (09:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 20, 2005, 5:01 AM MDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Fallon County, MT
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2:00 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2919 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 18 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 20, 3:41 AM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 20, 3:41 AM MDT, 16 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 214 AM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 MTZ028>030-034-035-038>042-056-057-063>068-WYZ098-099-210815- SOUTHERN WHEATLAND-MUSSELSHELL-TREASURE-NORTHERN STILLWATER- YELLOWSTONE-SOUTHERN BIG HORN-EASTERN CARBON-NORTHERN PARK- NORTHERN SWEET GRASS-GOLDEN VALLEY-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS- NORTHERN BIG HORN-JUDITH GAP-PARADISE VALLEY-LIVINGSTON AREA- BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS-ABSAROKA/BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS-CRAZY MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST BIG HORN MOUNTAINS-SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS- 214 AM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND CENTRAL MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MTZ031>033-036-037-058-210815- NORTHERN ROSEBUD-CUSTER-FALLON-POWDER RIVER-CARTER- SOUTHERN ROSEBUD- 214 AM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE SEVERE. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM MDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL ONCE AGAIN BE POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 19, 10:58 PM MDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
1058 PM MDT SUN JUN 19 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1058 PM HAIL BROADUS 45.44N 105.41W
06/19/2005 0.88 INCH POWDER RIVER MT LAW ENFORCEMENT
&&Special weather statement, Jun 20, 2:03 AM MDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 203 AM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 MTZ031>033-036-037-058-201300- CARTER-CUSTER-FALLON-POWDER RIVER-NORTHERN ROSEBUD-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD- 203 AM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 500 TO EXPIRE...AND HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 502 UNTIL 7 AM MDT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN MONTANA THE NEW WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA CARTER CUSTER FALLON POWDER RIVER ROSEBUD THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BAKER...MILES CITY...BROADUS... EKALAKA...COLSTRIP...LAME DEER AND FORSYTH. MTZ029-030-034-035-038-039-042-056-057-063-066-067-WYZ098-099-200915- SOUTHERN BIG HORN-NORTHERN BIG HORN-EASTERN CARBON-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS-BEARTOOTH/ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS-GOLDEN VALLEY-JUDITH GAP- MUSSELSHELL-NORTHERN STILLWATER-BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS- BEARTOOTH/ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS-TREASURE-YELLOWSTONE-SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS-NORTHEAST BIG HORN MOUNTAINS- 203 AM MDT MON JUN 20 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ALLOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 500 TO EXPIRE FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN MONTANA THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 7 COUNTIES IN CENTRAL MONTANA GOLDEN VALLEY MUSSELSHELL IN SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA BIG HORN CARBON STILLWATER YELLOWSTONE IN SOUTHEAST MONTANA TREASURE IN WYOMING THIS ALLOWS TO EXPIRE 1 COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING SHERIDAN THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...RED LODGE...BRIDGER...JOLIET... HARDIN...CROW AGENCY...SHERIDAN...RYEGATE...LAVINA...ROUNDUP... HYSHAM...BILLINGS...COLUMBUS AND ABSAROKEE.
Local storm report, Jun 20, 3:00 AM MDT, 57 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 19, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 10:06 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 54 min |
| Jun 19, 10:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 44 min |
| Jun 19, 10:57 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 35 min |
| Jun 20, 12:35 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud, Treasure | 55 min |
| Jun 20, 1:29 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud, Treasure | 61 min |
| Jun 20, 2:11 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Rosebud | 64 min |
| Jun 20, 3:07 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Fallon | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2005Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005
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.