Alert archive / Montana / High Wind Watches in 2016
High Wind Watch 5, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Dec 20, 2016, 4:17 AM MST for Golden Valley County, Wheatland County, Montana. It took effect at Dec 20, 2016, 3:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 20, 2016, 4:17 AM MST (11:17 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 20, 2016, 3:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Dec 20, 2016, 9:27 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Golden Valley County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:15 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
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 142 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
- 1403 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 104 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 293 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 313 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Dec 20, 3:55 AM MST, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 20, 3:55 AM MST, 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 19, 4:02 PM MST, 12 hours 15 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 402 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 MTZ028-034-040>042-056-063>068-202315- SOUTHERN WHEATLAND-NORTHERN STILLWATER-NORTHERN PARK- NORTHERN SWEET GRASS-GOLDEN VALLEY-RED LODGE FOOTHILLS-JUDITH GAP- PARADISE VALLEY-LIVINGSTON AREA-BEARTOOTH FOOTHILLS- ABSAROKA/BEARTOOTH MOUNTAINS-CRAZY MOUNTAINS- 402 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA AND SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA. * WIND IMPACTS...STRONG WINDS GUSTING 60 TO 75 MPH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK ACROSS THE WESTERN FOOTHILLS. DANGEROUS CROSSWINDS ON I-90 WILL CONTINUE IN THE LIVINGSTON TO BIG TIMBER CORRIDOR. BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW WILL DIMINISH OVER THE NEXT 24 HOURS AS TEMPERATURES INCREASE AND THE SNOWPACK SETTLES. * CHRISTMAS WEEKEND...ANOTHER SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR IS FORECAST TO ARRIVE FRIDAY AND STICK AROUND THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL BRING COLD TEMPERATURES AND POTENTIAL FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW TO THE AREA THROUGH THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THOSE WITH LATE WEEK TRAVEL PLANS MAY WANT TO CONSIDER AN EARLY TRAVEL TIME. STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECAST FOR UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIAL WINTER SYSTEM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS ISSUED WHEN HAZARDOUS WEATHER COULD IMPACT THE REGION WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK. BE SURE TO STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE UPDATES AS LOCATIONS, TIMING, AND IMPACTS COULD CHANGE. BEGIN PREPARATIONS TO MITIGATE ANY IMPACTS THAT COULD RESULT FROM THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER. && MTZ029>033-035>039-057-058-WYZ098-099-202315- MUSSELSHELL-TREASURE-NORTHERN ROSEBUD-CUSTER-FALLON-YELLOWSTONE- POWDER RIVER-CARTER-SOUTHERN BIG HORN-EASTERN CARBON- NORTHERN BIG HORN-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD-NORTHEAST BIGHORN MOUNTAINS- SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS- 402 PM MST MON DEC 19 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. * CHRISTMAS WEEKEND...ANOTHER SURGE OF ARCTIC AIR IS FORECAST TO ARRIVE FRIDAY AND STICK AROUND THROUGH THE EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL BRING COLD TEMPERATURES AND POTENTIAL FOR ACCUMULATING SNOW TO THE AREA THROUGH THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY WEEKEND. THOSE WITH LATE WEEK TRAVEL PLANS MAY WANT TO CONSIDER AN EARLY TRAVEL TIME. STAY TUNED TO THE LATEST FORECAST FOR UPDATES ON THIS POTENTIAL WINTER SYSTEM. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS ISSUED WHEN HAZARDOUS WEATHER COULD IMPACT THE REGION WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK. BE SURE TO STAY TUNED FOR FUTURE UPDATES AS LOCATIONS, TIMING, AND IMPACTS COULD CHANGE. BEGIN PREPARATIONS TO MITIGATE ANY IMPACTS THAT COULD RESULT FROM THE HAZARDOUS WEATHER. &&
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 19, 9:05 PM MST | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 30 hr |
| Dec 20, 9:27 AM MST | High Wind Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Wheatland | 17 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.