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River Flood Warning 26, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this river flood warning at Jul 6, 2011, 1:12 PM MDT for Sweet Grass County, Montana. It took effect at Jul 6, 2011, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 42 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 6, 2011, 1:12 PM MDT (19:12 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 6, 2011, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2011, 11:48 AM MDT
- In force
- 42 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Flood severity
- Minor
County Sweet Grass County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:14 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 Boulder River at Big Timber (BTMM8). The gauge peaked at 7.59 ft at Jul 5, 2011, 3:00 PM MDT.
- Minor stage
- 8 ft
This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests
Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 06200000, 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 Jul 6, 9:48 AM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 9:48 AM MDT, 3 hours 24 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 8:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carbon | 58 min |
| Jul 5, 9:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carbon | 50 min |
| Jul 5, 9:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Stillwater | 64 min |
| Jul 5, 10:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Big Horn | 54 min |
| Jul 5, 11:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Big Horn | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 1:15 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Rosebud | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 1:50 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 2:16 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Powder River | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 2:46 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Rosebud | 59 min |
| Jul 6, 3:22 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Powder River | 53 min |
| Jul 6, 4:30 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter, Custer, Powder River | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 5:19 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 56 min |
| Jul 6, 6:15 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 9:38 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | BYZ | Stillwater | 3 days |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 60 min |
| Jul 6, 4:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carbon, Park, Stillwater | 50 min |
| Jul 6, 4:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 63 min |
| Jul 6, 5:28 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Carbon | 62 min |
| Jul 6, 5:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | Park | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:39 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | Carbon | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 63 min |
| Jul 5, 11:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sheridan | 49 min |
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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.