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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Jan 8, 2014, 2:46 PM MST for 8 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jan 11, 2014, 5:00 AM MST. It was in force for 31 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 8, 2014, 2:46 PM MST (21:46 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 11, 2014, 5:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2014, 11:34 AM MST
- In force
- 31 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:52 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 12:00Z, 9.8 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
- 1329 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 80 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 Jan 8, 9:44 AM MST, 5 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 9:44 AM MST, 5 hours 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 9:29 AM MST | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park | 23 hr |
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High Wind Watches in Montana, 2014Every high wind watch in 2014
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.