Alert archive / Montana / High Wind Watches in 2007
High Wind Watch 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Jan 7, 2007, 3:42 AM MST for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jan 8, 2007, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2007, 3:42 AM MST (10:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 8, 2007, 6:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2007, 3:59 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Treasure County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:42 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 378 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
- 574 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Jan 7, 3:01 AM MST, 41 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 3:01 AM MST, 41 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 6, 9:46 PM MST, 5 hours 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 946 PM MST SAT JAN 6 2007 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-080500- SOUTHERN WHEATLAND-MUSSELSHELL-TREASURE-NORTHERN ROSEBUD-CUSTER- FALLON-NORTHERN STILLWATER-YELLOWSTONE-POWDER RIVER-CARTER- SOUTHERN BIG HORN-EASTERN CARBON-NORTHERN PARK- NORTHERN SWEET GRASS-GOLDEN VALLEY-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS- NORTHERN BIG HORN-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD-JUDITH GAP-PARADISE VALLEY- LIVINGSTON AREA-BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS-ABSAROKA/BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS- CRAZY MOUNTAINS-NORTHEAST BIG HORN MOUNTAINS-SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS- 946 PM MST SAT JAN 6 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT LIGHT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE OCCURRING OVER SOUTHERN BIG HORN COUNTY AND SHERIDAN COUNTY WYOMING. UP TO AN INCH OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE ESPECIALLY IN THE FOOTHILLS AND MOUNTAIN LOCATIONS. GIVEN RECENT WARM TEMPERATURES SNOW MELTING AND RE- FREEZING ON AREA ROADS IS A POSSIBILITY PERSONS TRAVELING SHOULD USE CAUTION TRAVELING OVER NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING AND SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY ANOTHER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL OF STRONG WINDS OVER THE AREA SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT. FOLLOWING THIS...ANOTHER WINDY PERIOD IS EXPECTED TUESDAY AND TUESDAY NIGHT AHEAD OF A ARCTIC COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO PUSH ACROSS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY OR WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THIS STRONG COLD FRONT WILL LIKELY BRING A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE WEATHER. THE CHANGE WILL INCLUDE MUCH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND ACCUMULATING SNOW FOR THE LATTER HALF OF NEXT WEEK. THERE IS STILL SOME UNCERTAINTY REGARDING EXACTLY HOW THIS PATTERN CHANGE WILL EVOLVE...SO PLEASE MONITOR FUTURE FORECASTS AND STATEMENTS. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 9:48 PM MST | High Wind Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 30 hr |
Nearby
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.