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Special Weather Statement, NWS Billings, MT

August 21, 2011Custer County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this special weather statement at Aug 21, 2011, 9:10 PM MDT for Custer County, Montana. It was in force for 65 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 21, 2011, 9:10 PM MDT (03:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 21, 2011, 10:15 PM MDT
In force
65 min
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

County Custer County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 197 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 198 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2011-08-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Glasgow Intl Airport, MT at 00:00Z on 2011-08-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
3890 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

120 
WWUS85 KBYZ 220310
SPSBYZ

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
910 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

MTZ032-220415-
CUSTER MT-
910 PM MDT SUN AUG 21 2011

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR CUSTER COUNTY UNTIL 1015 PM
MDT...

AT 908 PM MDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MILES CITY...MOVING EAST AT
30 MPH.

WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH 
FREQUENT DANGEROUS LIGHTNING.

THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
MILES CITY AROUND 915 PM MDT.
TUSLER AND MURN AROUND 925 PM MDT.
KINSEY AROUND 935 PM MDT.
SHIRLEY AND BONFIELD AROUND 945 PM MDT.
LOCATE AROUND 1005 PM MDT.

LAT...LON 4684 10562 4676 10561 4674 10556 4667 10556
      4666 10549 4658 10543 4657 10525 4655 10522
      4655 10498 4582 10500 4584 10611 4657 10613
      4682 10612 4687 10608
TIME...MOT...LOC 0310Z 262DEG 27KT 4655 10593

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 21, 6:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZBig Horn, Treasure57 min
Aug 21, 7:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZBig Horn67 min
Aug 21, 7:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ57 min
Aug 21, 8:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Aug 21, 8:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZPrairie60 min
Aug 21, 10:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZFallon59 min
Aug 21, 10:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZCarter56 min
Aug 21, 11:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZCarter44 min
Aug 22, 2:39 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZBig Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley, Musselshell and 7 more30 hr

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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.