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High Wind Watch 13, NWS Billings, MT

December 25, 2008Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Dec 25, 2008, 2:56 PM MST for Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana. It took effect at Dec 27, 2008, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 25, 2008, 2:56 PM MST (21:56 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 27, 2008, 6:00 PM MST
Expired: Dec 27, 2008, 3:52 PM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT

Counties Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:59 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 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 Dec 25, 9:21 AM MST, 5 hours 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 25, 9:21 AM MST, 5 hours 35 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 25, 4:00 AM MST, 10 hours 56 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 25, 2:18 PM MST	Winter Storm Warning	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Park and 4 more	31 hr
Dec 25, 2:18 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley, Musselshell and 6 more	26 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Montana, 2008 Every high wind watch 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.