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High Wind Warning 8, NWS Billings, MT

March 21, 2025Golden Valley County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Mar 21, 2025, 3:12 PM MDT for Golden Valley County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana. It took effect at Mar 22, 2025, 3:00 AM MDT. 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: Mar 21, 2025, 3:12 PM MDT (21:12 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 22, 2025, 3:00 AM MDT
Expired: Mar 22, 2025, 5:48 PM MDT
In force: 15 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 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 9.2 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Mar 21, 4:02 AM MDT, 11 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 21, 4:02 AM MDT, 11 hours 10 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 21, 1:45 AM MDT	High Wind Watch	BYZ	Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	13 hr
Mar 21, 3:12 PM MDT	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	18 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.