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River Flood Warning 20, NWS Billings, MT

June 23, 2011Custer County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this river flood warning at Jun 23, 2011, 3:17 PM MDT for Custer County, Montana. It took effect at Jun 26, 2011, 6:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 15 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2011, 3:17 PM MDT (21:17 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 26, 2011, 6:00 AM MDT
Expired: Jul 11, 2011, 8:16 AM MDT
In force: 15 days
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT
Flood severity: Minor

County Custer County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 231 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The river

Written for the forecast point Yellowstone River at Miles City (MILM8). The gauge peaked at 14.34 ft at Jul 5, 2011, 3:00 AM MDT.

Minor stage: 14 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06309000, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river flood 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 river flood warning went out at Jun 23, 10:38 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 10:38 AM MDT, 4 hours 39 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
Jun 23, 1:30 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	BYZ	Carbon	17 days
Jun 23, 1:50 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	BYZ	Sweet Grass	67 hr
Jun 23, 3:17 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	BYZ	Stillwater, Yellowstone	15 days
Jun 23, 3:17 PM MDT	River Flood Warning	BYZ	Rosebud, Treasure	19 days
Jun 23, 3:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BYZ	Carbon	61 min
Jun 23, 4:29 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BYZ		61 min
Jun 23, 4:57 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon	46 min
Jun 23, 5:07 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BYZ	Sweet Grass	53 min
Jun 23, 5:34 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BYZ	Yellowstone	56 min
Jun 23, 1:30 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	BYZ	Sheridan	8 days
Jun 23, 5:48 PM MDT	Special Weather Statement	BYZ	Sheridan	57 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.