Special Weather Statement
NWS Billings MT ยท US
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Details
An Area Of Strong Thunderstorms Will Impact Southeastern Big Horn And Central Sheridan Counties Until 6 PM MDT
- Event
- Special Weather Statement
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 504 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking an area of strong thunderstorms extending from over Ranchester to 29 miles southeast of Sheridan moving northeast at 20 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 40 mph and penny size hail.
Source
Trained Weather Spotters.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is possible. Locations impacted include... Sheridan, Ranchester, Dayton, Big Horn, Clearmont, Tongue River Reservoir, Banner, Rosebud Battlefield Park and Leiter.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building. Heavy rainfall is also occurring with these storms and may lead to flash flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways.
Affected areas
- Southern Big Horn
- Sheridan Foothills
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Billings MT
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~26s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2VC750RYX59YTN6YCF32E5J
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.053de4f340f833cf830ce3558bf5cf6d0740775b.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Billings MT
- AWIPS ID
- CAPBYZ
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.8506
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSBYZ |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS85 KBYZ 182304 |
| NWSheadline | AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL IMPACT SOUTHEASTERN BIG HORN AND CENTRAL SHERIDAN COUNTIES UNTIL 6 PM MDT |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-18T23:03:00-00:00...storm...199DEG...16KT...44.94,-107.15 44.81,-106.86 44.68,-106.76 44.49,-106.55 |
| maxWindGust | 40 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.75 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Southern Big Horn
- Sheridan Foothills
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 030003 |
| SAME | 056033 |
| UGC | MTZ138 |
| UGC | WYZ199 |
- Polygons
- 45.0,-107.23 45.25,-107.09 45.18,-106.77 45.17,-106.27 45.07,-106.26 44.99,-106.26 44.56,-106.23 44.56,-106.84 44.58,-106.89 44.62,-106.91 44.63,-106.94 44.63,-106.96 44.88,-107.3 45.0,-107.23