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High Wind Warning 5, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at May 24, 2010, 3:42 PM MDT for Carter County, Custer County, Fallon County, Montana. It took effect at May 25, 2010, 12:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
- May 24, 2010, 3:42 PM MDT (21:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 25, 2010, 12:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- May 25, 2010, 10:25 AM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 267 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 501 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 208 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
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 May 24, 3:09 PM MDT, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 3:09 PM MDT, 33 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 3:44 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BYZ | 23 hr | |
| May 24, 10:45 AM MDT | Flood Watch | BYZ | Sheridan | 6 days |
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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.