Weather alerts in Montana, 1988
60 weather alerts in 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 60
- Warnings
- 60
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- June27 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 28, 198811 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 16, 5:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Chouteau | 2 hr |
| May 16, 6:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Liberty | 55 min |
| May 16, 6:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Toole | 2 hr |
| May 24, 3:07 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade | 38 min |
| May 27, 4:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Golden Valley, Musselshell | 65 min |
| Jun 3, 7:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Pondera | 28 min |
| Jun 7, 3:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Teton | 67 min |
| Jun 8, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Glacier, Pondera, Toole | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 6:49 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Phillips | 56 min |
| Jun 8, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Garfield | 60 min |
| Jun 8, 8:50 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Daniels | 70 min |
| Jun 17, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 5:42 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Hill | 63 min |
| Jun 17, 6:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Chouteau, Hill | 58 min |
| Jun 17, 6:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 2:16 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Missoula | 59 min |
| Jun 28, 9:47 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Mineral, Sanders | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 10:58 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Flathead, Lincoln | 62 min |
| Jun 28, 1:55 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Sanders | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 2:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Ravalli | 115 min |
| Jun 28, 2:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Flathead | 2 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Glacier, Pondera | 66 min |
| Jun 28, 4:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Granite, Missoula | 86 min |
| Jun 28, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Teton | 36 min |
| Jun 28, 5:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Pondera, Toole | 59 min |
| Jun 28, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Glacier, Pondera | 55 min |
| Jun 28, 5:50 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Teton | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 5:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Phillips | 52 min |
| Jun 29, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 90 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | Prairie | 64 min |
| Jun 29, 6:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Dawson, Prairie | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Ravalli | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 8:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Mineral, Missoula | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 11:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lewis and Clark | 57 min |
| Jul 3, 11:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Chouteau | 55 min |
| Jul 3, 11:27 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Meagher | 63 min |
| Jul 3, 11:47 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade, Chouteau, Judith Basin | 58 min |
| Jul 4, 4:05 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels, Valley | 70 min |
| Jul 4, 5:42 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | TFX | Cascade | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 1:18 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Broadwater, Lewis and Clark, Meagher | 87 min |
| Jul 5, 1:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Lewis and Clark | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 1:51 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Cascade | 69 min |
| Jul 5, 2:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Teton | 52 min |
| Jul 5, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 3:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill, Liberty | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 4:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 5:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Blaine | 65 min |
| Jul 5, 5:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Hill, Liberty | 62 min |
| Jul 5, 5:42 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | TFX | Chouteau, Hill, Liberty | 33 min |
| Jul 5, 8:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels, Roosevelt, Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jul 5, 10:20 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | GGW | Sheridan | 60 min |
| Jul 11, 4:12 PM MDT | Tornado Warning | TFX | Cascade | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 7:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 65 min |
| Aug 1, 8:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Rosebud, Treasure | 99 min |
| Aug 18, 8:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 9:05 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Daniels | 55 min |
| Aug 20, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Chouteau | 66 min |
| Sep 7, 6:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 61 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 54 |
| Tornado Warning | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chouteau County11
- Cascade County9
- Hill County7
- Pondera County5
- Missoula County5
- Liberty County4
- Teton County4
- Daniels County4
- Valley County4
- Toole County3
- Glacier County3
- Granite County3
- Mineral County3
- Lewis and Clark County3
- Phillips County2
- Sanders County2
- Flathead County2
- Ravalli County2
- Prairie County2
- Meagher County2
- Sheridan County2
- Golden Valley County1
- Musselshell County1
- Garfield County1
- Lincoln County1
- Lake County1
- Dawson County1
- Judith Basin County1
- Broadwater County1
- Blaine County1
- Roosevelt County1
- Yellowstone County1
- Rosebud County1
- Treasure County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.