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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 83, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2018, 5:50 PM MDT for Big Horn County, Rosebud County, Montana. It was in force for 22 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 8, 2018, 5:50 PM MDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2018, 6:12 PM MDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Rosebud County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 8, 3:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 3:28 PM MDT, 2 hours 22 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jun 8, 4:00 PM MDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Jun 7, 6:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Powder River, Rosebud | 61 min |
| Jun 7, 6:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 24 min |
| Jun 7, 6:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 34 min |
| Jun 7, 6:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer, Rosebud | 49 min |
| Jun 7, 6:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 29 min |
| Jun 7, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Custer | 60 min |
| Jun 7, 7:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Custer | 22 min |
| Jun 7, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Powder River | 80 min |
| Jun 7, 7:30 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | Custer | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 7:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 42 min |
| Jun 7, 7:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Fallon | 64 min |
| Jun 7, 8:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Carter | 63 min |
| Jun 7, 9:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Golden Valley | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 9:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Golden Valley | 36 min |
| Jun 7, 10:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Musselshell | 52 min |
| Jun 7, 10:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Stillwater | 31 min |
| Jun 7, 11:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Yellowstone | 35 min |
| Jun 8, 4:00 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Stillwater | 45 min |
| Jun 8, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Big Horn | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 5:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Carter | 40 min |
| Jun 7, 6:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sheridan | 59 min |
| Jun 7, 6:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Sheridan | 34 min |
| Jun 8, 4:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sheridan | 22 min |
| Jun 8, 5:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sheridan | 49 min |
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.