Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2007
Red Flag Warning 8, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this red flag warning at Aug 10, 2007, 3:52 AM MDT for 17 counties in Montana; Sheridan County, Wyoming. It took effect at Aug 10, 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
- Aug 10, 2007, 3:52 AM MDT (09:52 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 10, 2007, 12:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2007, 11:53 PM MDT
- In force
- 12 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Gallatin County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Madison County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Wheatland County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT, Sheridan County, WY
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:51 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 305 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
- 5182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Aug 9, 8:50 PM MDT, 7 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 8:50 PM MDT, 7 hours 2 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 4:26 PM MDT, 11 hours 26 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 426 PM MDT THU AUG 9 2007 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-102230- 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- 426 PM MDT THU AUG 9 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER TONIGHT IS LOW .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY HOT AND DRY WEATHER COMBINED WITH INCREASED WESTERLY WINDS AND A WIND SHIFT ASSOCIATED WITH A COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL RESULT IN A PERIOD OF CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER FRIDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A FIRE WEATHER WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED...AND THOSE PLANNING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE FIRE DANGER AND POTENTIAL FOR RAPID WILDFIRE GROWTH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. JKL
Nearby
Red Flag Warnings in Montana, 2007Red Flag Warnings in Wyoming, 2007Every red flag warning in 2007
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.