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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Billings, MT

August 4, 2008Carter County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this flash flood warning at Aug 4, 2008, 12:23 AM MDT for Carter County, Montana. It was in force for 4 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 4, 2008, 12:23 AM MDT (06:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 4, 2008, 4:30 AM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Carter County, MT

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 205 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood 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 flash flood warning went out at Aug 3, 2:39 PM MDT, 9 hours 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:39 PM MDT, 9 hours 44 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 2:21 PM MDT, 10 hours 2 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 9:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn54 min
Aug 3, 9:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCuster, Powder River, Rosebud64 min
Aug 3, 10:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZBig Horn, Rosebud63 min
Aug 3, 11:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Custer, Fallon60 min
Aug 3, 11:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZPowder River, Rosebud66 min
Aug 3, 11:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Powder River62 min
Aug 4, 12:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter, Powder River63 min
Aug 4, 1:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZCarter48 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Montana, 2008Every flash flood warning in 2008

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.