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High Wind Warning 2, NWS Billings, MT

January 20, 20255 counties in Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Jan 20, 2025, 1:52 AM MST for 5 counties in Montana. It took effect at Jan 20, 2025, 8:00 PM MST. It was in force for 21 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 20, 2025, 1:52 AM MST (08:52 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 20, 2025, 8:00 PM MST
Expired
Jan 21, 2025, 5:13 PM MST
In force
21 hr
Issued by
NWS Billings, MT

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

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:55 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 340 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 2025-01-20Temperature 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, Riverton, WY at 00:00Z on 2025-01-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -252 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
910 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
58 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.