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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Mar 26, 2012, 4:05 AM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Mar 26, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 26, 2012, 4:05 AM MDT (10:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 26, 2012, 6:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2012, 3:19 PM MDT
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Rapid City, SD (KUNR), launched 00:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 263 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
- 1385 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 65 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch 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 high wind watch went out at Mar 26, 3:49 AM MDT, 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 26, 3:49 AM MDT, 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 11:43 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley, Musselshell and 5 more | 12 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Stillwater | 63 min |
| Mar 26, 5:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Powder River | 52 min |
| Mar 26, 5:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 59 min |
| Mar 26, 4:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sheridan | 53 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.