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River Flood Warning 22, NWS Billings, MT

June 29, 2011Stillwater County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this river flood warning at Jun 29, 2011, 9:19 AM MDT for Stillwater County, Montana. It took effect at Jun 30, 2011, 2:36 AM MDT. It was in force for 5 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 29, 2011, 9:19 AM MDT (15:19 UTC)
In effect from: Jun 30, 2011, 2:36 AM MDT
Expired: Jul 5, 2011, 10:57 AM MDT
In force: 5 days
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT
Flood severity: Moderate

County Stillwater County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 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 Stillwater River (South Central MT) near Absarokee (SRAM8).

Minor stage: 7.5 ft
Moderate stage: 8 ft
Major stage: 9 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06205000, 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 29, 3:06 AM MDT, 6 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 29, 3:06 AM MDT, 6 hours 13 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 29, 4:11 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park	5 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.