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Fire Weather Watch 2, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this fire weather watch at Mar 31, 2021, 3:02 AM MDT for Carter County, Fallon County, Montana. It took effect at Apr 1, 2021, 9:00 AM MDT. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 31, 2021, 3:02 AM MDT (09:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 1, 2021, 9:00 AM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 31, 2021, 2:32 PM MDT
- In force
- 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 09:07 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, 9.0 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 31, 2:32 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | Carter, Fallon | 30 hr |
Nearby
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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.