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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Billings, MT

June 6, 2019Park County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this wind advisory at Jun 6, 2019, 3:57 PM MDT for Park County, Montana. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 6, 2019, 3:57 PM MDT (21:57 UTC)
Expired
Jun 6, 2019, 8:11 PM MDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

County Park County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 155 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 219 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2019-06-06Temperature 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, Great_falls, MT at 12:00Z on 2019-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 153 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
1765 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
153 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
427 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
Jun 6, 6:32 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ43 min
Jun 6, 5:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZSweet Grass33 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.