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High Wind Watch 4, NWS Great Falls, MT
NWS Great Falls, MT issued this high wind watch at Jan 22, 2025, 12:47 PM MST for Glacier County, Pondera County, Toole County, Montana. It took effect at Jan 23, 2025, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 22, 2025, 12:47 PM MST (19:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 23, 2025, 9:00 AM MST
- Expired
- Jan 23, 2025, 2:22 AM MST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Great Falls, MT
Counties Glacier County, MT, Pondera County, MT, Toole County, MT
The radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 137 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Great_falls, MT (KTFX), launched 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 1621 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 133 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 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 Jan 22, 9:55 AM MST, 2 hours 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 9:55 AM MST, 2 hours 52 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jan 22, 6:53 AM MST, 5 hours 54 minutes before
Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Great Falls MT
653 AM MST Wed Jan 22 2025
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0530 AM Non-Tstm Wnd Gst 6 S Whitlash 48.81N 111.26W
01/22/2025 M61 MPH Liberty MT Mesonet
Mesonet station GW3546 WHITLASH SEVEN SOUTH.
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AMSpecial weather statement, Jan 22, 7:09 AM MST, 5 hours 38 minutes before
Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Great Falls MT 709 AM MST Wed Jan 22 2025 MTZ309-310-312-221715- Eastern Pondera and Eastern Teton- Western and Central Chouteau County-Cascade County below 5000ft- Including the cities of Brady, Conrad, Ledger, Floweree, Carter, Fort Benton, and Great Falls 709 AM MST Wed Jan 22 2025 ...Periods of Primarily Light Snow This Morning... Periods of primarily light, but locally and briefly moderate snowfall will move from northwest to southeast across much of the plains of North-central Montana this morning. If traveling, be prepared for quick changes to visibility and road conditions. Northwest winds around 10 to 20 mph, with gusts to 30 mph may result in isolated instances of blowing or drifting of snow.
Special weather statement, Jan 22, 10:18 AM MST, 2 hours 29 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Great Falls, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 22, 8:59 AM MST | Blizzard Warning | TFX | Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Judith Basin, Meagher | 8 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.