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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Billings, MT

February 17, 201612 counties in Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Feb 17, 2016, 3:41 PM MST for 12 counties in Montana. It took effect at Feb 18, 2016, 12:00 PM MST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 17, 2016, 3:41 PM MST (22:41 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 18, 2016, 12:00 PM MST
Expired: Feb 18, 2016, 3:43 AM MST
In force
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Wheatland County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

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 17, 3:19 PM MST, 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 17, 3:19 PM MST, 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 17, 3:22 PM MST, 19 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
322 PM MST WED FEB 17 2016

MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-181230-
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 BIGHORN MOUNTAINS-SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS-
322 PM MST WED FEB 17 2016

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

.DAY ONE...TONIGHT

THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER TONIGHT IS LOW.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND A COLD FRONT ON THURSDAY AND
CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST FRIDAY MORNING. GUSTS OF 50 TO 60 MPH
ARE POSSIBLE. THE STRONG WINDS WILL BEGIN WEST OF ROSEBUD COUNTY
AND OVER THE SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS THURSDAY AFTERNOON. STRONG WINDS
WILL DEVELOP FROM ROSEBUD COUNTY EAST THURSDAY EVENING.

.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 17, 3:41 PM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	49 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.