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High Wind Warning 15, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at May 13, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT for 9 counties in Montana. It took effect at May 13, 2026, 1:00 PM MDT. It was in force for 26 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
- May 13, 2026, 12:00 AM MDT (06:00 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 13, 2026, 1:00 PM MDT
- Expired
- May 14, 2026, 2:46 PM MDT
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Big Horn County, MT, Carbon County, MT, Golden Valley County, MT, Musselshell County, MT, Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT, Yellowstone County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:00 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
Glasgow Intl Airport, MT (KGGW), launched 00:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 323 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
- 3372 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 44 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 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 May 12, 7:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 50 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 12, 7:10 PM MDT, 4 hours 50 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 12:00 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 36 hr |
| May 13, 2:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Park | 34 min |
| May 13, 3:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass | 62 min |
| May 13, 4:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Wheatland | 64 min |
| May 13, 5:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Musselshell | 49 min |
| May 13, 5:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn, Rosebud | 43 min |
| May 13, 5:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Park, Sweet Grass | 38 min |
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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.