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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 2005, 4:21 PM MDT for Wheatland County, Montana. It was in force for 24 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
- May 20, 2005, 4:21 PM MDT (22:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 2005, 4:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 24 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 22:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
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 May 20, 2:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 20, 2:33 PM MDT, 1 hour 48 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:32 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 28 min |
| May 20, 4:59 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Wheatland | 21 min |
| May 20, 5:13 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley | 36 min |
| May 20, 5:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Musselshell | 28 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.