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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this winter storm warning at Nov 28, 2016, 2:25 AM MST for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Nov 28, 2016, 3:00 PM MST. It was in force for 29 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
- Nov 28, 2016, 2:25 AM MST (09:25 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 28, 2016, 3:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Nov 29, 2016, 8:12 PM MST
- In force
- 29 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carter County, MT, Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT, Powder River County, MT
The nearest sounding before it
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 286 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
- 1662 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -30 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 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 Nov 27, 9:12 PM MST, 5 hours 13 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 27, 9:12 PM MST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 27, 1:11 PM MST, 13 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 111 PM MST SUN NOV 27 2016 MTZ030>033-036>038-057-058-WYZ099-272200- TREASURE-NORTHERN ROSEBUD-CUSTER-FALLON-POWDER RIVER-CARTER- SOUTHERN BIG HORN-NORTHERN BIG HORN-SOUTHERN ROSEBUD- SHERIDAN FOOTHILLS- 111 PM MST SUN NOV 27 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS: SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW CAUSING POOR VISIBILITY AND DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS. ROADS WILL BECOME SNOW PACKED AND SLICK. * TIMING: LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT. * SNOW ACCUMULATION: SEVERAL INCHES OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF OVER 4 INCHES BEING EAST OF A FORSYTH TO ASHLAND LINE. * BLOWING SNOW: STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS WILL CAUSE BLOWING SNOW WHICH COULD LEAD SIGNIFICANT TRAVEL ISSUES DUE TO POOR VISIBILITY. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 28, 2:25 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BYZ | Rosebud | 31 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in Montana, 2016Every winter storm warning in 2016
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.