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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Billings, MT

February 15, 2014Golden Valley County, Stillwater County, Wheatland County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Feb 15, 2014, 4:02 PM MST for Golden Valley County, Stillwater County, Wheatland County, Montana. It took effect at Feb 16, 2014, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 15, 2014, 4:02 PM MST (23:02 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 16, 2014, 12:00 PM MST
Expired
Feb 16, 2014, 3:22 AM MST
In force
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Golden Valley County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Wheatland County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 355 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, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2014-02-15Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2014-02-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1020 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
98 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
303 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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 Feb 15, 3:30 PM MST, 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 15, 3:30 PM MST, 32 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 15, 3:41 PM MST, 21 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
341 PM MST SAT FEB 15 2014

MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-162245-
SOUTHERN WHEATLAND-MUSSELSHELL-TREASURE-NORTHERN ROSEBUD-CUSTER-
FALLON-NORTHERN STILLWATER-YELLOWSTONE-POWDER RIVER-CARTER-
SOUTHERN BIG HORN-EASTERN CARBON-NORTHERN PARK-
NORTHERN SWEET GRASS-GOLDEN VALLEY-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS-
NORTHERN BIG HORN-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD-JUDITH GAP-PARADISE VALLEY-
LIVINGSTON AREA-BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS-ABSAROKA/BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS-
CRAZY MOUNTAINS-NORTHEAST BIG HORN MOUNTAINS-SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS-
341 PM MST SAT FEB 15 2014

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH
CENTRAL WYOMING.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT

SOUTHWEST WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH ARE
EXPECTED IN THE LIVINGSTON AND NYE AREAS TONIGHT. DANGEROUS
CROSSWINDS WILL OCCUR ON INTERSTATE 90 FROM LIVINGSTON TO
SPRINGDALE AND ON LOCAL ROADS AROUND NYE.

PERIODS OF ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL WILL IMPACT THE WEST SLOPES OF
THE BEARTOOTH AND ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS TONIGHT.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY

STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE IN THE LIVINGSTON AND NYE AREAS INTO
SUNDAY MORNING...DECREASE SUNDAY AFTERNOON...AND THEN PICK BACK
UP AGAIN WITH GUSTS TO 75 MPH SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY. MORE
STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN THOSE AREAS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.

IN THE JUDITH GAP...HARLOWTON...BIG TIMBER AND RYEGATE AREAS...
WEST WIND GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND
SUNDAY EVENING.

PERIODS OF ACCUMULATING SNOWFALL WILL IMPACT THE WEST SLOPES OF
THE BEARTOOTH AND ABSAROKA MOUNTAINS SUNDAY.

COLDER TEMPERATURES AND A CHANCE OF SNOW WILL RETURN THURSDAY AND
FRIDAY.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 3:18 AM MSTWind AdvisoryBYZPark, Stillwater, Sweet Grass41 hr

Nearby

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.