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High Wind Warning 11, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at May 16, 2025, 2:16 AM MDT for Carter County, Fallon County, Montana. It was in force for 11 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
- May 16, 2025, 2:16 AM MDT (08:16 UTC)
- Expired
- May 16, 2025, 1:00 PM MDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Carter County, MT, Fallon County, MT
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 238 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Bismarck Municip, ND (KBIS), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 305 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 582 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 418 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 530 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 3:43 PM MDT | Flood Watch | BYZ | Big Horn, Carbon | 3 days |
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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.