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High Wind Warning 10, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this high wind warning at Feb 24, 2025, 1:24 PM MST for 7 counties in Montana. It took effect at Feb 25, 2025, 2:00 AM MST. 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
- Feb 24, 2025, 1:24 PM MST (20:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 25, 2025, 2:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Feb 25, 2025, 5:07 PM MST
- In force
- 15 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
Counties Fergus County, MT, Glacier 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), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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
Spokane, WA (KOTX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 361 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
- 1105 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 75 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 280 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 345 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Feb 24, 11:10 AM MST, 2 hours 14 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 24, 11:10 AM MST, 2 hours 14 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 6:19 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | Blaine, Chouteau, Hill | 17 hr |
| Feb 24, 10:54 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | Hill, Liberty | 13 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:47 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | Blaine, Chouteau, Hill | 12 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.