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High Wind Warning 11, NWS Billings, MT

December 2, 2023Golden Valley County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Dec 2, 2023, 1:34 AM MST for Golden Valley County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana. It took effect at Dec 2, 2023, 7:00 PM MST. It was in force for 9 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
Dec 2, 2023, 1:34 AM MST (08:34 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 2, 2023, 7:00 PM MST
Expired
Dec 3, 2023, 3:49 AM MST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

Counties Golden Valley County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:35 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 00:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 156 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 00:00Z on 2023-12-02Temperature 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 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 00:00Z on 2023-12-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 23 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
1609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
148 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
Dec 2, 1:34 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningBYZGolden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland52 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.