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Wind Chill Advisory 5, NWS Billings, MT

December 24, 2017Carter County, Fallon County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this wind chill advisory at Dec 24, 2017, 3:34 AM MST for Carter County, Fallon County, Montana. It took effect at Dec 24, 2017, 11:00 PM MST. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 24, 2017, 3:34 AM MST (10:34 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 24, 2017, 11:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 25, 2017, 9:41 AM MST
In force
11 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Carter County, MT, Fallon County, MT

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 238 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 305 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2017-12-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2017-12-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 114 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
114 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 24, 11:51 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBYZPark, Stillwater, Sweet Grass40 hr

Nearby

Wind Chill Advisories in Montana, 2017Every wind chill advisory 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.