Even with improved technology and weather awareness, there’s much to be learned from the tragic tornadoes of the past. In this InvestigateTV+ report, we explore America’s forgotten twister and reveal new potentially life-saving changes for forecasting. National ‘Puppy Mountain’ photo draws on...
Timeline showing a brief history of the office. The first weather records in Billings were taken by the U.S. Army on January 1, 1883. In June of 1934, a Weather Bureau Station was established at the Billings Airport. This station served as the State Forecast Center from 1941 to 1953, w...
NOAA Weather Radio uses Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME) to effectively broadcast emergency weather information to the public. This burst of information contains the county effected, type of alert, the time duration, and any extra information from the NWS. To receive SAME notifications, your N...
While the short-lived June 2014 and July–August 2015 eruptions occurred during good weather conditions, periods of rain interrupted the longer eruptions of May 2015 and August–October 2015. Bad weather conditions were dominant during the February 2015 eruption, making any real time assessment of g...