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High Wind Watch 10, NWS Billings, MT

November 8, 2011Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Nov 8, 2011, 8:52 PM MST for Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana. It took effect at Nov 9, 2011, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 8, 2011, 8:52 PM MST (03:52 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 9, 2011, 8:00 PM MST
Expired: Nov 9, 2011, 3:14 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 03:58 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 Nov 8, 3:55 PM MST, 4 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 3:55 PM MST, 4 hours 57 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 8, 2:41 PM MST, 6 hours 11 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
Nov 9, 3:14 PM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	66 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Montana, 2011 Every high wind watch in 2011

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.