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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Billings, MT

June 24, 20054 counties in Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2005, 11:00 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It was in force for 90 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 24, 2005, 11:00 PM MDT (05:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 25, 2005, 12:30 AM MDT
In force: 90 min
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River 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 24, 5:10 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 263 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 1148 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -31 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1283 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.9
Supercell composite: 6.4

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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 24, 9:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 24, 9:01 PM MDT, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 24, 5:28 PM MDT, 5 hours 32 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
528 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2005

MTZ028>030-032>035-039>042-056-063>068-252330-
SOUTHERN WHEATLAND-MUSSELSHELL-TREASURE-CUSTER-FALLON-
NORTHERN STILLWATER-YELLOWSTONE-EASTERN CARBON-NORTHERN PARK-
NORTHERN SWEET GRASS-GOLDEN VALLEY-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS-JUDITH GAP-
PARADISE VALLEY-LIVINGSTON AREA-BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS-
ABSAROKA/BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS-CRAZY MOUNTAINS-
528 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL
MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND CENTRAL MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

MTZ031-036>038-057-058-WYZ098-099-252330-
NORTHERN ROSEBUD-POWDER RIVER-CARTER-SOUTHERN BIG HORN-
NORTHERN BIG HORN-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD-NORTHEAST BIG HORN MOUNTAINS-
SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS-
528 PM MDT FRI JUN 24 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH CENTRAL
WYOMING...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA.

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT THIS EVENING. THE MAIN
THREATS OF ANY SEVERE STORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS
AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

JKL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:25 PM MDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:36 PM MDT, 2 hours 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:47 PM MDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 24, 8:54 PM MDT, 2 hours 6 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 8:57 PM MDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 24, 9:40 PM MDT, 1 hour 20 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 6:03 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carter, Powder River	57 min
Jun 24, 6:26 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carter	64 min
Jun 24, 6:44 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carbon, Yellowstone	61 min
Jun 24, 6:59 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Big Horn, Rosebud	39 min
Jun 24, 7:00 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carter	60 min
Jun 24, 7:08 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Big Horn	67 min
Jun 24, 7:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carbon	65 min
Jun 24, 7:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Carter	32 min
Jun 24, 8:02 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Yellowstone	53 min
Jun 24, 8:13 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Big Horn	62 min
Jun 24, 8:43 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Rosebud	47 min
Jun 24, 9:29 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Rosebud	46 min
Jun 24, 9:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley	62 min
Jun 24, 10:11 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Wheatland	39 min
Jun 24, 10:24 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Custer	66 min
Jun 24, 10:41 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Powder River	64 min
Jun 25, 3:48 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley	27 min
Jun 25, 4:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley, Musselshell	63 min
Jun 25, 4:45 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley	29 min
Jun 25, 5:12 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Musselshell, Rosebud	63 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana, 2005 Every 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.