Alert archive / Montana / Wind Advisories in 2011
Wind Advisory 13, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this wind advisory at Mar 14, 2011, 2:19 AM MDT for Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana. It was in force for 10 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 14, 2011, 2:19 AM MDT (08:19 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2011, 12:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:21 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 2988 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
736 WWUS75 KBYZ 140819 NPWBYZ URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 219 AM MDT MON MAR 14 2011 ...STRONG WINDS NEAR LIVINGSTON AND ALONG THE BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS ARE EXPECTED THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT AND TO CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. MTZ065-141800- /O.NEW.KBYZ.WI.Y.0013.110314T0819Z-110314T1800Z/ LIVINGSTON AREA- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LIVINGSTON 219 AM MDT MON MAR 14 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY. * IMPACTS: DRIVERS OF HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION...PARTICULARLY ALONG PORTIONS OF INTERSTATE 90 FROM SPRINGDALE TO LIVINGSTON. VERY STRONG CROSS WINDS ARE EXPECTED IN THESE AREAS. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THROUGH 9 AM. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 60 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ MTZ066-141800- /O.NEW.KBYZ.WI.Y.0013.110314T0819Z-110314T1800Z/ BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...FISHTAIL...MCLEOD 219 AM MDT MON MAR 14 2011 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON MDT TODAY. * IMPACTS: DRIVERS SHOULD USE EXTRA CAUTION...PARTICULARLY ALONG THE STILLWATER RIVER AND WEST ROSEBUD CREEK VALLEYS. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED FROM NYE TO THE STILLWATER MINE SOUTH OF NYE...WITH SLIGHTLY LIGHTER WINDS EXPECTED ALONG WEST ROSEBUD CREEK SOUTH OF FIDDLER CREEK ROAD. * TIMING: STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THROUGH 9 AM. * WINDS: SOUTHWEST WINDS 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS AROUND 65 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WINDS THIS STRONG CAN MAKE DRIVING DIFFICULT...ESPECIALLY FOR HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES. USE EXTRA CAUTION. && $$ HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/BILLINGS HOOLEY
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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.