Alert archive / Montana / 2002
Weather alerts in Montana, May 2002
20 weather alerts in May 2002, 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 20
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 21, 20027 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 19, 5:11 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | Missoula | 19 min |
| May 20, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Broadwater, Carbon, Cascade, Flathead, Gallatin, Glacier and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 7:17 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Teton | 28 min |
| May 21, 3:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Big Horn, Musselshell, Rosebud, Treasure, Yellowstone | 5 hr |
| May 21, 3:45 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chouteau, Fergus, Golden Valley, Hill, Judith Basin, Liberty and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 21, 4:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Judith Basin | 34 min |
| May 21, 4:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 53 min |
| May 21, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 57 min |
| May 21, 5:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Musselshell | 66 min |
| May 21, 6:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Petroleum | 53 min |
| May 21, 6:23 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Fergus | 37 min |
| May 21, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill | 40 min |
| May 21, 7:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Hill | 45 min |
| May 27, 3:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Big Horn | 38 min |
| May 28, 4:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 38 min |
| May 28, 5:32 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Yellowstone | 58 min |
| May 28, 5:41 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GGW | Valley | 64 min |
| May 30, 8:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Madison | 46 min |
| May 30, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | Gallatin | 36 min |
| May 30, 9:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | Park | 47 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 | 17 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Yellowstone County5
- Judith Basin County3
- Musselshell County3
- Hill County3
- Gallatin County2
- Park County2
- Teton County2
- Wheatland County2
- Big Horn County2
- Fergus County2
- Missoula County1
- Broadwater County1
- Carbon County1
- Cascade County1
- Flathead County1
- Glacier County1
- Lewis and Clark County1
- Meagher County1
- Pondera County1
- Stillwater County1
- Sweet Grass County1
- Toole County1
- Rosebud County1
- Treasure County1
- Chouteau County1
- Golden Valley County1
- Liberty County1
- Petroleum County1
- Valley County1
- Madison County1
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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. Rebuilt daily.