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Wind Advisory 5, NWS Billings, MT
NWS Billings, MT issued this wind advisory at Jan 25, 2026, 12:41 PM MST for Park County, Stillwater County, Sweet Grass County, Montana. It took effect at Jan 25, 2026, 9:00 PM MST. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 25, 2026, 12:41 PM MST (19:41 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 25, 2026, 9:00 PM MST
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2026, 5:07 AM MST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Billings, MT
Counties Park County, MT, Stillwater County, MT, Sweet Grass County, MT
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 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 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 313 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
- 1509 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 68 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Billings, MT issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 2:51 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 3 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:09 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | Sheridan | 3 hr |
Nearby
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.