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Wind Advisory 11, NWS Billings, MT

February 9, 2022Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this wind advisory at Feb 9, 2022, 2:24 AM MST for Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana. It took effect at Feb 10, 2022, 3:00 AM MST. It was in force for 17 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 9, 2022, 2:24 AM MST (09:24 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2022, 3:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 10, 2022, 7:56 PM MST
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:30 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

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 313 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, Riverton, WY at 00:00Z on 2022-02-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Riverton, WY at 00:00Z on 2022-02-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 105 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
3936 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
105 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 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
Feb 9, 2:24 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBYZGolden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland15 hr
Feb 9, 1:54 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZCarter, Custer, Fallon, Powder River4 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.