High Wind Watch
NWS Great Falls MT ยท US
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High Wind Watch In Effect From Friday Evening Through Saturday Morning
- Event
- High Wind Watch
- Issued
- Onset
- Message expires
- Expected end
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Future
- Severity
- Severe
- Certainty
- Possible
- Response
- Prepare
Description
What
West winds 30 to 35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph possible.
Where
Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera and Northern High Plains.
When
From Friday evening through Saturday morning.
Impacts
Travel could be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles.
Instructions
Remember, a High Wind Watch means that there is at least a 50% chance of 40 mph sustained winds or 58 mph wind gusts occurring during the watch period.
Affected areas
- Northern High Plains
- Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Great Falls MT
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- Issue to receipt
- ~1m15s
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M392R1BXAYNFMKTDJB6GDFZJ
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1b062662abd94fb6b99a7a066cba6e53334595bf.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Great Falls MT
- AWIPS ID
- CAPTFX
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.1676
- 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 | HWA |
| NationalWeatherService | HWA |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | NPWTFX |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS75 KTFX 240647 |
| NWSheadline | HIGH WIND WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| VTEC | /O.NEW.KTFX.HW.A.0028.260926T0000Z-260926T1500Z/ |
| eventEndingTime | 2026-09-26T09:00:00-06:00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Northern High Plains
- Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 030035 |
| SAME | 030073 |
| SAME | 030101 |
| UGC | MTZ302 |
| UGC | MTZ303 |