Alert archive / Montana / Winter Storm Warnings in 2016
Winter Storm Warning 7, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this winter storm warning at Dec 3, 2016, 6:07 PM MST for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Dec 4, 2016, 12:00 AM MST. It was in force for 34 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
- Dec 3, 2016, 6:07 PM MST (01:07 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 4, 2016, 12:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2016, 9:36 AM MST
- In force
- 34 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carbon County, MT, Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:13 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 295 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
- 2297 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 106 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 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 Dec 3, 2:27 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 3, 2:27 PM MST, 3 hours 40 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 3, 2:13 PM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 213 PM MST SAT DEC 3 2016 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-042115- 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- 213 PM MST SAT DEC 3 2016 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. * TIMING: SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. * POTENTIAL IMPACTS: ACCUMULATING SNOW. ICY AND/OR SNOW COVERED ROADS RESULTING IN DIFFICULT TRAVEL CONDITIONS. VERY COLD TEMPERATURES AND WIND CHILLS RESULTING IN COLD EXPOSURE HEALTH CONCERNS. * TEMPERATURES: HIGHS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. LOWS IN THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE AND BELOW ZERO MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. * SNOW ACCUMULATION: 2-4 INCHES OF ACCUMULATION POSSIBLE OVER THE PLAINS. 8-14 INCHES FOR AREA MOUNTAINS. 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 4, 4:11 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BYZ | Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Park and 6 more | 34 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.