Alert archive / Montana / Wind Advisories in 2008
Wind Advisory 5, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this wind advisory at Jan 25, 2008, 8:57 PM MST for Park County, Montana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2008, 8:57 PM MST (03:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2008, 3:57 AM MST
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
County Park County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:00 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 1591 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 296 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Jan 25, 8:35 PM MST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 8:35 PM MST, 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 25, 8:11 PM MST, 46 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 811 PM MST FRI JAN 25 2008 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-270315- 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- 811 PM MST FRI JAN 25 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT STRONG WINDS WILL BE FOUND OVERNIGHT ALONG THE BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS TO LIVINGSTON. THIS WILL AFFECT INTERSTATE 90 FROM LIVINGSTON TO SPRINGDALE OVERNIGHT WITH DANGEROUS CROSS WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THE LIVINGSTON AND NYE AREAS SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. AT THIS TIME IT APPEARS THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SUNDAY MORNING WHEN GUSTS TO 60 MPH OR MORE ARE POSSIBLE. THOSE PLANNING TRAVEL ON INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN SPRINGDALE AND LIVINGSTON SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR DANGEROUS CROSS WINDS. ANOTHER ARCTIC COLD FRONT WILL SURGE OUT OF CANADA EARLY MONDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE OF SNOW AS WELL AS A DRAMATIC RETURN TO MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES AGAIN MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 3:57 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Wheatland | 12 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:57 AM MST | High Wind Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 43 hr |
Nearby
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.