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High Wind Warning 22, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Dec 31, 2008, 3:29 AM MST for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Dec 31, 2008, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for 15 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
- Dec 31, 2008, 3:29 AM MST (10:29 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 31, 2008, 9:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 1, 2009, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Golden Valley County, MT, Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:34 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 340 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
- 2047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 95 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 443 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 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 high wind warning went out at Dec 30, 8:58 PM MST, 6 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 30, 8:58 PM MST, 6 hours 31 minutes before
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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.