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High Wind Warning 14, NWS Billings, MT

June 15, 2022Custer County, Fallon County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Jun 15, 2022, 2:27 AM MDT for Custer County, Fallon County, Montana. It took effect at Jun 15, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT. It was in force for 10 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
Jun 15, 2022, 2:27 AM MDT (08:27 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 15, 2022, 11:00 AM MDT
Expired
Jun 15, 2022, 9:00 PM MDT
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Custer County, MT, Fallon County, MT

The radar

The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 246 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 333 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2022-06-15Temperature 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, Bismarck Municip, ND at 00:00Z on 2022-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1756 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
72 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind 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 high wind warning went out at Jun 14, 2:51 PM MDT, 11 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:51 PM MDT, 11 hours 36 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 1:15 AM MDTRiver Flood WarningBYZRosebud, Treasure3 days
Jun 15, 12:14 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningBYZCuster71 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.