Alert archive / Montana / High Wind Watches in 2014
High Wind Watch 4, NWS Billings, MT
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.
- 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
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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</html>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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 15, 3:18 AM MST | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 41 hr |
Nearby
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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.