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High Wind Watch 3, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this high wind watch at Feb 2, 2023, 1:50 AM MST for 10 counties in Montana. It took effect at Feb 3, 2023, 9:00 PM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 2, 2023, 1:50 AM MST (08:50 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 3, 2023, 9:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Feb 3, 2023, 12:20 PM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
Counties Blaine County, MT, Chouteau County, MT, Fergus County, MT, Glacier County, MT, Hill County, MT, Judith Basin County, MT, Lewis and Clark County, MT, Pondera County, MT, Teton County, MT, Toole County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Feb 1, 10:38 PM MST, 3 hours 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 1, 10:38 PM MST, 3 hours 12 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Feb 1, 9:23 PM MST, 4 hours 27 minutes before
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.