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High Wind Warning 8, NWS Billings, MT

February 23, 2026Carbon County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana; Sheridan County, Wyoming

NWS Billings, MT issued this high wind warning at Feb 23, 2026, 12:55 AM MST for Carbon County, Sweet Grass County, Wheatland County, Montana; Sheridan County, Wyoming. It took effect at Feb 23, 2026, 2:00 PM MST. It was in force for 13 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 23, 2026, 12:55 AM MST (07:55 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 23, 2026, 2:00 PM MST
Expired: Feb 24, 2026, 3:23 AM MST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Billings, MT

Counties Carbon County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT, Wheatland County, MT, Sheridan County, WY

The radar

The Billings radar (KBLX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 282 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: 2971 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 191 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 22, 11:31 PM MST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 22, 11:31 PM MST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Feb 22, 10:21 PM MST, 2 hours 34 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
Feb 23, 12:27 AM MST	Winter Storm Warning	BYZ	Carbon, Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	59 hr
Feb 23, 12:55 AM MST	High Wind Watch	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon	16 hr
Feb 23, 2:14 PM MST	High Wind Watch	BYZ	Golden Valley, Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	23 hr
Feb 23, 3:08 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon	45 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in Montana, 2026 High Wind Warnings in Wyoming, 2026 Every high wind warning in 2026

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.