Alert archive / Montana / Wind Advisories in 2019
Wind Advisory 8, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this wind advisory at Feb 23, 2019, 2:36 AM MST for Park County, Montana. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 23, 2019, 2:36 AM MST (09:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 23, 2019, 9:13 AM MST
- In force
- 7 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 09:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 318 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1377 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Feb 22, 9:21 PM MST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 9:21 PM MST, 5 hours 15 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 23, 1:13 AM MST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Billings MT 113 AM MST SAT FEB 23 2019 MTZ065-231315- Livingston Area- 113 AM MST SAT FEB 23 2019 Southwest winds gusting to around 55 mph will cause localized blowing and drifting snow through the remainder of the night. Travelers on I-90 through Livingston should expect to encounter gusty cross winds and periods of reduced visibility due to blowing snow. LAT...LON 4561 11060 4571 11061 4576 11035 4566 11031 TIME...MOT...LOC 0809Z 240DEG 49KT 4574 11035 Lester
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 1:13 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park | 5 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:00 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Carbon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Park, Rosebud and 4 more | 6 days |
| Feb 23, 3:00 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BYZ | Big Horn, Carbon, Carter, Custer, Fallon, Golden Valley and 8 more | 6 days |
| Feb 23, 12:36 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Wheatland | 114 min |
| Feb 23, 3:12 PM MST | Wind Chill Advisory | BYZ | Carter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River, Rosebud | 20 hr |
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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.