Alert archive / Montana / Winter Storm Warnings in 2014
Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this winter storm warning at Jan 28, 2014, 3:08 PM MST for 10 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jan 29, 2014, 6:00 AM MST. It was in force for 33 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 28, 2014, 3:08 PM MST (22:08 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 29, 2014, 6:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 30, 2014, 2:53 PM MST
- In force
- 33 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 321 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
- 2559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 93 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 28, 9:03 AM MST, 6 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 9:03 AM MST, 6 hours 5 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 28, 3:37 AM MST, 11 hours 31 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 337 AM MST TUE JAN 28 2014 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-291045- 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- 337 AM MST TUE JAN 28 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN THE NYE AND LIVINGSTON AREA THIS EVENING. WINDS SPEEDS OF 30 TO 40 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 60 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THESE WINDS WILL BRING STRONG CROSS WINDS TO I90 FROM LIVINGSTON TO SPRINGDALE AND ALSO IN THE NYE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY STRONG WINDS IN THE NYE AND LIVINGSTON AREA WILL WEAKEN BY NOON AS A STRONG COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA. HEAVY SNOW IS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH THURSDAY EVENING...MAINLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. THE HEAVIEST SNOWFALL IS EXPECTED ALONG AND WEST OF A LINE FROM ROUNDUP TO BILLINGS TO SHERIDAN. 6 TO 8 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE OVER THE LOWER ELEVATIONS WITH OVER A FOOT OF SNOW EXPECTED IN THE MOUNTAINS. TRAVEL COULD BE SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED WITH REDUCED VISIBILITIES AND DETERIORATING ROAD CONDITIONS. CHECK THE FORECAST REGULARLY IF YOU PLAN ON TRAVELING OR HAVE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES PLAN WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. .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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 28, 3:51 AM MST | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 36 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Montana, 2014Winter Storm Warnings in Wyoming, 2014Every winter storm warning 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.