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High Wind Warning 12, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Mar 15, 2026, 7:40 PM MDT for 4 counties in Montana. It took effect at Mar 16, 2026, 3:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 53 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 15, 2026, 7:40 PM MDT (01:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 16, 2026, 3:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- Mar 18, 2026, 7:46 PM MDT
- In force
- 53 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Golden Valley County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:45 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
Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 348 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
- 1347 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 138 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind warning went out at Mar 15, 6:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 15, 6:04 PM MDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15, 7:40 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Stillwater | 18 hr |
| Mar 15, 7:40 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 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.