1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Jan 13, 8:55 AM MST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
855 AM MST SUN JAN 13 2002
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR TDY...MON...TUE...
UPDATES FORTHCOMING DUE TO SNOW IN PROGRESS AND SOME TEMPERATURES.
WILL LEAVE THE HIGH WIND WARNING AS IT IS PRESENTLY. WHILE WINDS
LATELY HAVE NOT BEEN IN WARNING CRITERIA...THEY HAVE BEEN CLOSE AT
TIMES...AND VERY STRONG WINDS NOT THAT FAR OFF THE SURFACE LOOKING AT
THE 12Z SOUNDINGS. MOREOVER...NEW ETA IS STRONGER WITH A SECONDARY
WAVE. THIS MAY ACTUALLY REQUIRE EXTENDING THE WARNING...ESPECIALLY FOR
THE EXTREME EAST...INTO TONIGHT.
MAIN THING WITH THE SNOW IS THAT IT IS WET. WHILE SOME BLOWING AND
DRIFTING WILL OCCUR...AM NOT ANTICIPATING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS AND THE
MAIN SNOW EVENT SHOULD TAKE PLACE THIS MORNING WITH ACTIVITY DIMINISHING
TO SHOWERS THIS AFTERNOON. FROM WHAT CAN SEE RADAR WISE...MAIN ECHO
PATTERN IS MOVING EAST WITH INDIVIDUAL ELEMENTS MOVING SOUTHEAST. SOME
POPS WILL HAVE TO BE INCREASED...ESPECIALLY OVER SHERIDAN COUNTY
WYOMING AND WILL ALSO HAVE TO PUT CARTER COUNTY IN WITH FALLON FOR
HIGHER SNOW POPS. CHB
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR WED...THU...FRI...SAT...
MODELS CONTINUE TO SHOW MEAN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE SETTING UP OVER
THE EASTERN PACIFIC. THIS WILL PUT THE FORECAST AREA IN A NORTHERLY
FLOW ALOFT. AVN BRINGS A SHORT WAVE EMBEDDED IN THIS FLOW OVER THE
WESTERN AREAS OF THE BILLINGS FORECAST AREA ON WEDNESDAY. MODELS
ARE NOT VERY CONSISTENT BEYOND WEDNESDAY. NUMEROUS SHORTWAVES WILL BE
MOVING THROUGH THE NORTHERLY FLOW THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY BUT TIMING
AND STRENGTH OF WAVES WILL BE DIFFICULT. MRF MEAN ENSEMBLE REFLECTS THIS
WITH VERY LOW CONFIDENCE. WITH NORTHERLY FLOW SET UP OVER THE AREA
THROUGH THE PERIOD...TEMPERATURES SHOULD BE SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL
AND WILL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS FOR WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. WILL NOT MAKE ANY
CHANGES FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY DUE TO MODEL UNCERTAINTY. RICHMOND
TDY MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
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BIL 038 018/030 012/022 020/028 025/030 025/035 024/037
4/N 00/E 22/J 20/B 02/E 23/J 22/E
LVM 037 015/028 010/022 016/026 022/029 020/030 021/035
3/N 00/E 22/J 22/B 22/E 23/J 22/E
HDN 038 016/030 010/022 018/027 023/030 021/036 022/038
4/N 00/E 22/J 20/B 02/E 23/J 22/E
MLS 041 017/029 009/021 018/025 018/029 023/033 021/035
4/N 20/E 00/B 20/B 02/E 23/J 22/E
4BQ 041 017/029 009/021 019/024 019/028 025/034 022/036
4/N 20/E 00/B 20/B 02/E 23/J 22/E
BHK 035 015/027 007/019 016/022 016/027 018/030 018/032
8/N 20/E 00/B 20/B 02/E 23/J 22/E
SHR 038 014/027 008/019 018/029 023/035 023/033 022/035
8/N 00/E 23/J 20/B 02/E 23/J 22/E
.BYZ...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY FOR A SMALL PART OF SOUTH CENTRAL MONTANA
ALL OF SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND SHERIDAN COUNTY WY.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind damage. Wind gust blew a car into the ditch.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Montana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, January 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5279500.