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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this red flag warning at Mar 13, 2015, 2:25 PM MDT for 17 counties in Montana. It took effect at Mar 14, 2015, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
- Mar 13, 2015, 2:25 PM MDT (20:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 14, 2015, 11:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 14, 2015, 8:45 PM MDT
- In force
- 10 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Gallatin County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Madison County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Wheatland County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 32 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this red flag 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 red flag warning went out at Mar 13, 1:29 PM MDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 1:29 PM MDT, 56 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.