Alert archive / Montana / Red Flag Warnings in 2017
Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this red flag warning at Jul 10, 2017, 3:30 AM MDT for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jul 10, 2017, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 5 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
- Jul 10, 2017, 3:30 AM MDT (09:30 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 10, 2017, 3:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Jul 10, 2017, 8:21 PM MDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Powder River County, MT, Rosebud County, MT, Treasure County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:33 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, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 282 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
- 56 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -199 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10, 12:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 1:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Wheatland | 51 min |
| Jul 10, 1:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park, Sweet Grass | 39 min |
| Jul 10, 2:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Golden Valley | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 2:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Stillwater | 41 min |
| Jul 10, 2:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 2:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Musselshell | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 3:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Yellowstone | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 3:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Musselshell, Treasure | 47 min |
| Jul 10, 3:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 3:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 4:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 38 min |
| Jul 10, 4:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Big Horn, Yellowstone | 45 min |
| Jul 10, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Rosebud, Treasure | 44 min |
| Jul 10, 4:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Fallon | 30 min |
| Jul 10, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Rosebud | 23 min |
| Jul 10, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Custer | 46 min |
| Jul 10, 5:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Fallon | 49 min |
| Jul 10, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 49 min |
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.