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 Nov 29, 9:09 AM MST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
909 AM MST FRI NOV 29 2002
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR TDY AND SAT...
UPDATE FOR ZONES AND AFP. WATER VAPOR SATELLITE SHOWING MOISTURE MOVING
INTO THE AREA AND IS BRINGING A MOSTLY CLOUDY SKY TO ALL OF SC MT. WILL
UPDATE ZONES FOR MORE CLOUDS IN THE WEST THIS MORNING. HIGH WIND
WARNING STILL LOOKS POSSIBLE FOR EXTREME SOUTHEAST MONTANA TODAY.
GLASGOW UPPER AIR SOUNDING THIS MORNING IS SHOWING 805MB WINDS OF 50KTS.
12Z BUFKIT ALSO SHOWING 850MB MOMENTUM TRANSFER WINDS OF 50KTS.
LIMITING FACTOR FOR HIGH WINDS EAST TODAY IS THAT THE STRONGEST COLD AIR
ADVECTION WILL TAKE PLACE EAST OF AREA. STILL FEEL THAT ENOUGH COLD AIR
ADVECTION WILL TAKE PLACE THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST
TO ALLOW WINDS ALOFT TO HOOK UP WITH THE SURFACE. WILL LEAVE HIGH WIND
WARNING IN PLACE. WINDS WILL DIMINISH QUICKLY THIS EVENING OUT EAST AS
PRESSURE GRADIENTS WEAKEN.
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR SUN...MON...TUE...WED...THU...
OVERALL EXTENDED CONTINUES TO BE DOMINATED BY NORTHWESTERLY FLOW OVER
THE AREA WITH RIDGING ALONG THE WEST COAST. EXTENDED MODELS LOOKING TO
BE IN GOOD AGREEMENT AND BOTH 00Z GFS AND 12Z ECWMF AGREEING ON A
STRONGER SHORTWAVE MOVING ACROSS THE AREA ON MONDAY. AS THIS SHORTWAVE
ENTERS INTO NORTHERN SASK/ALBERTA ON SUNDAY IT INDUCES PRESSURE FALLS
WHICH WILL AID MIXING LATE IN THE DAY AND HELP SUNDAY TEMPS BE WARMER
THAN SATURDAY. THE CUTOFF LOW WHICH HAD BEEN OVER CALIFORNIA MIGRATES
ACROSS UTAH SUNDAY AFTERNOON/NIGHT WITH IT APPEARS TO HELP FORM A
WEAKNESS THAT THE NORTHERN SHORTWAVE PHASES WITH DURING THE DAY ON
MONDAY. MOISTURE DOES NOT LOOK GREAT WITH THE SYSTEM...BUT WITH STRONGER
SUPPORT ALOFT COMBINING WITH UPSLOPE THINK THAT CHANCE POPS ACROSS THE
AREA ARE WORTH A MENTION. TUESDAY WILL BE ANOTHER COOL DAY WITH HIGH
PRESSURE OVER THE AREA WITH WEAKER MIXING BEFORE ANOTHER SHORTWAVE MOVES
SOUTHWARD AND INDUCES PRESSURE FALLS AND BETTER MIXING FOR WEDNESDAY.
IMPACTS OF THIS SHORTWAVE MAY PRODUCE A CHANCE FOR WEATHER ON THURSDAY
BUT TIMING ON THIS WAVE HAS SLIPPED A BIT AND CONFIDENCE IS TOO LOW TO
INTRODUCE POPS THIS FAR OUT. BORSUM
TDY SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU
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BIL 048 024/044 028/051 029/039 021/035 020/038 023/035
0/B 00/B 00/U 03/J 30/E 00/U 00/E
LVM 052 024/042 025/049 027/038 019/034 019/037 022/033
0/B 00/E 00/B 03/J 30/B 00/U 00/E
HDN 049 024/045 026/051 027/039 020/032 018/037 021/033
0/B 00/E 00/U 03/J 30/E 00/B 00/E
MLS 047 020/041 019/048 025/036 017/028 015/032 017/031
0/N 00/B 00/U 03/J 30/E 00/B 00/E
4BQ 049 022/043 025/049 025/038 018/028 015/032 017/030
0/N 00/B 00/U 03/J 30/E 00/B 00/E
BHK 048 018/040 020/045 024/034 015/026 012/029 013/028
0/N 00/U 00/U 03/J 30/E 00/B 00/E
SHR 049 020/044 025/047 026/036 019/033 018/036 020/034
0/B 00/E 00/U 03/J 30/E 00/B 00/E
.BYZ...
MT...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR TODAY FOR ZONES MTZ033...MTZ037.
WY...NONE.MTZ028>042-056>058-WYZ098-099-301200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 503 AM MST FRI NOV 29 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE... A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR CARTER COUNTY AND FALLON COUNTY IN EXTREME SOUTHEAST MONTANA FOR LATE THIS MORNING THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. REFER TO GTFNPWBYZ FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. WCJIN-WYNW-WYNE
MTZ056-292030- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 1033 AM MST FRI NOV 29 2002 AT 1025 AM MST...A REPORT WAS RECEIVED FROM THE RED LODGE SKI RESORT THAT RAIN...OCCASIONALLY MIXED WITH SLEET...WAS IN PROGRESS AT THE RESORT. THE TEMPERATURE THERE WAS 31 DEGREES AT THE TIME OF THE REPORT AND PRECIPITATION WAS FREEZING ON CONTACT WITH THE GROUND. ROADWAYS TO THE RESORT WERE REPORTED AS BEING VERY SLICK. PEOPLE CONSIDERING SKIING AT RED LODGE LATE THIS MORNING INTO EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE CONDITIONS AT HIGHER ELEVATIONS FROM THE TOWN OF RED LODGE AND PLAN ACCORDINGLY. THE PRECIPITATION SHOULD END AT THE RESORT THIS AFTERNOON. CHB
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
40 mph non-thunderstorm sustained winds at Alzada
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, November 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: 5323525.