Alert archive / Montana / High Wind Watches in 2011
High Wind Watch 6, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Feb 14, 2011, 4:35 AM MST for 6 counties in Montana. It took effect at Feb 14, 2011, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2011, 4:35 AM MST (11:35 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 14, 2011, 6:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 14, 2011, 2:20 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carbon County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:33 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 324 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
- 3686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Feb 14, 3:49 AM MST, 46 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 3:49 AM MST, 46 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 14, 4:35 AM MST, 0 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 435 AM MST MON FEB 14 2011 MTZ028-041-056-063-065-066-068-151145- SOUTHERN WHEATLAND-NORTHERN SWEET GRASS-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS- JUDITH GAP-LIVINGSTON AREA-BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS-CRAZY MOUNTAINS- 435 AM MST MON FEB 14 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA AND SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT VERY STRONG GUSTY WEST TO SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS...THE RED LODGE FOOTHILLS...AND SWEET WATER AND WHEATLAND COUNTIES BY THIS EVENING...WITH GUSTS TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY VERY STRONG SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL CONTINUE IN THE LEE OF THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING. GUSTS OF 60 TO 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE INTERSTATE 90 FROM BIG TIMBER TO LIVINGSTON... HIGHWAY 191 NORTH FROM BIG TIMBER...HIGHWAY 12 THROUGH HARLOWTON...AND IN THE RED LODGE SKI AREA. A CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN BY LATE WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY AS A STRONG PACIFIC DISTURBANCE MOVES INTO THE REGION. LOOK FOR A GOOD CHANCE OF SNOW ACROSS THE AREA FROM WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT...AND A TRANSITION TO BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES THURSDAY THROUGH NEXT WEEKEND. STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECASTS AS THE WEATHER PATTERN EVOLVES THIS WEEK. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 2:20 PM MST | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 31 hr |
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.