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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Billings, MT

April 3, 201610 counties in Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Apr 3, 2016, 3:10 PM MDT for 10 counties in Montana. It took effect at Apr 4, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 3, 2016, 3:10 PM MDT (21:10 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 4, 2016, 9:00 PM MDT
Expired
Apr 4, 2016, 3:17 PM MDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carter County, MT, Custer 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), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:12 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 Apr 3, 3:00 PM MDT, 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 3, 3:00 PM MDT, 10 minutes before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 3, 3:02 PM MDT, 8 minutes before
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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.