Alert archive / Montana / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 1, 2008, 2:42 PM MDT for Powder River County, Montana. It was in force for 33 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 1, 2008, 2:42 PM MDT (20:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 1, 2008, 3:15 PM MDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Powder River County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 237 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 262 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1913 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 1, 9:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 1, 9:37 AM MDT, 5 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 1, 4:00 AM MDT, 10 hours 42 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 400 AM MDT SUN JUN 1 2008 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-021000- 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- 400 AM MDT SUN JUN 1 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE WILL BE A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHEAST MONTANA...IN AND NEAR CARTER...POWDER RIVER AND SOUTHERN ROSEBUD COUNTIES...THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A DISTURBANCE WILL PUSH NORTHEAST OUT OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY AND WILL REACH THE AREA BY THIS EVENING. THIS FEATURE WILL COMBINE WITH A MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS TO PRODUCE SCATTERED AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE AREA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME MORE NUMEROUS THIS EVENING...BEFORE DIMINISHING FROM WEST TO EAST LATE TONIGHT. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BE SEVERE OVER SOUTHEAST MONTANA WITH WIND GUSTS OF 60 MPH AND PENNY SIZED HAIL. THE TONGUE RIVER IN BIG HORN...ROSEBUD AND CUSTER COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH DUE TO SNOW MELT IN THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY THE TONGUE RIVER IN BIG HORN...ROSEBUD AND CUSTER COUNTIES WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH THROUGH THE WEEK DUE TO SNOW MELT IN THE BIG HORN MOUNTAINS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 3:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Powder River | 62 min |
| Jun 1, 3:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell | 57 min |
| Jun 1, 4:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter, Powder River | 63 min |
| Jun 1, 4:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone | 64 min |
| Jun 1, 5:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 61 min |
| Jun 1, 5:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 39 min |
Nearby
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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.