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Red Flag Warning 4, NWS Billings, MT

July 20, 20074 counties in Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 20, 2007, 3:45 AM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 20, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 12 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 20, 2007, 3:45 AM MDT (09:45 UTC)
In effect from
Jul 20, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired
Jul 20, 2007, 11:31 PM MDT
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Gallatin County, MT, Madison County, MT, Park County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 181 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2007-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Great_falls, MT at 00:00Z on 2007-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
5873 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
44 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.