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High Wind Warning 1, NWS Billings, MT

January 25, 2023Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Jan 25, 2023, 1:22 PM MST for Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana. It took effect at Jan 26, 2023, 2:00 AM MST. It was in force for 15 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
Jan 25, 2023, 1:22 PM MST (20:22 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 26, 2023, 2:00 AM MST
Expired
Jan 26, 2023, 4:30 PM MST
In force
15 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:20 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

Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 177 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 2023-01-25Temperature 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 2023-01-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 243 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
1433 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
243 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
251 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
Jan 25, 12:39 AM MSTHigh Wind WatchBYZStillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland13 hr
Jan 25, 1:24 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchBYZBig Horn, Carbon, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Park, Rosebud and 4 more37 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.