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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2014, 12:59 PM MDT for Carter County, Fallon County, Montana. It was in force for 37 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 3, 2014, 12:59 PM MDT (18:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 3, 2014, 1:36 PM MDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Carter County, MT, Fallon County, MT
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 238 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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
Rapid City, SD (KRAP), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 241 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
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 3.3
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 3, 9:59 AM MDT, 3 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 9:59 AM MDT, 3 hours before
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Special weather statement, Jun 3, 12:16 PM MDT, 43 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 1216 PM MDT TUE JUN 3 2014 MTZ033-037-031900- CARTER MT-FALLON MT- 1216 PM MDT TUE JUN 3 2014 ...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY... AT 1215 PM MDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTH OF EKALAKA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. DIME SIZE HAIL AND WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... MEDICINE ROCKS ST PARK...WILLARD AND WEBSTER. LAT...LON 4588 10441 4593 10475 4626 10471 4615 10407 TIME...MOT...LOC 1815Z 180DEG 16KT 4599 10461 JKL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2, 6:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park | 51 min |
| Jun 2, 8:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 59 min |
| Jun 3, 2:08 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Custer | 52 min |
| Jun 3, 11:59 AM MDT | River Flood Watch | BYZ | Carbon | 4 days |
| Jun 3, 11:59 AM MDT | River Flood Watch | BYZ | Carbon | 5 days |
| Jun 3, 12:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Fallon | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 12:25 PM MDT | River Flood Watch | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 24 hr |
| Jun 3, 2:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Wheatland | 44 min |
| Jun 3, 2:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Fallon | 42 min |
| Jun 3, 2:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Wheatland | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 2:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 37 min |
| Jun 3, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Wheatland | 61 min |
| Jun 3, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 23 min |
| Jun 3, 3:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 39 min |
| Jun 3, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Wheatland | 32 min |
| Jun 3, 4:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Musselshell | 30 min |
| Jun 3, 4:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Musselshell | 64 min |
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.