Alert archive / Montana / Winter Storm Warnings in 2018
Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this winter storm warning at Jan 18, 2018, 2:48 AM MST for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jan 18, 2018, 6:00 PM MST. It was in force for 30 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
- Jan 18, 2018, 2:48 AM MST (09:48 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 18, 2018, 6:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 20, 2018, 12:00 AM MST
- In force
- 30 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 09:49 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 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 Jan 17, 2:34 PM MST, 12 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 17, 2:34 PM MST, 12 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 17, 3:02 AM MST, 23 hours 46 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Billings MT 302 AM MST Wed Jan 17 2018 MTZ028>042-056>058-063>068-WYZ098-099-171115- 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- 302 AM MST Wed Jan 17 2018 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of central Montana...south central Montana...southeast Montana and north central Wyoming. A wind advisory has been issued for the Livingston area and the Beartooth Foothills for tonight through Friday morning. See the latest forecast for details. Otherwise, no hazardous weather is expected at this time.
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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.