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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Billings, MT

October 23, 2017Golden Valley County, Wheatland County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind watch at Oct 23, 2017, 3:26 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, Wheatland County, Montana. It took effect at Oct 25, 2017, 12:00 PM MDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 23, 2017, 3:26 PM MDT (21:26 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 25, 2017, 12:00 PM MDT
Expired: Oct 24, 2017, 3:17 PM MDT
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 21:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Oct 23, 3:12 PM MDT, 14 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 23, 3:12 PM MDT, 14 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 23, 2:56 AM MDT, 12 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 23, 3:04 PM MDT	Fire Weather Watch	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley and 9 more	24 hr

Nearby

High Wind Watches in Montana, 2017 Every high wind watch in 2017

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.