Weather alerts in Montana, December 2023

53 weather alerts in December 2023, 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 December 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 53
Warnings: 8
Watches: 7
Advisories: 32
Busiest day: December 1, 20239 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
Dec 1, 1:33 AM MST	High Wind Watch	BYZ	Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	24 hr
Dec 1, 1:33 AM MST	High Wind Watch	BYZ	Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	24 hr
Dec 1, 1:33 AM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	50 hr
Dec 1, 1:33 AM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	3 days
Dec 1, 7:55 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Lake, Sanders	3 hr
Dec 1, 12:49 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Lake, Sanders	34 hr
Dec 1, 2:36 PM MST	High Wind Watch	GGW	Phillips	36 hr
Dec 1, 2:42 PM MST	High Wind Watch	TFX	Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill and 6 more	33 hr
Dec 1, 2:42 PM MST	High Wind Warning	TFX	Fergus, Glacier, Judith Basin, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton and 1 more	32 hr
Dec 2, 1:34 AM MST	High Wind Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	26 hr
Dec 2, 1:34 AM MST	High Wind Warning	BYZ	Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland	52 hr
Dec 2, 2:17 AM MST	High Wind Warning	TFX	Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill and 6 more	49 hr
Dec 2, 1:09 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula and 3 more	44 hr
Dec 2, 6:16 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Ravalli	44 min
Dec 2, 6:41 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Missoula	49 min
Dec 2, 7:22 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Granite	38 min
Dec 2, 8:10 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	MSO	Missoula	80 min
Dec 3, 2:16 AM MST	High Wind Warning	GGW	Phillips	28 hr
Dec 4, 3:05 AM MST	High Wind Watch	TFX	Glacier, Pondera	14 hr
Dec 4, 1:15 PM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	64 hr
Dec 4, 5:10 PM MST	High Wind Warning	TFX	Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole	27 hr
Dec 6, 2:23 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	TFX	Beaverhead, Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin and 6 more	61 hr
Dec 6, 2:35 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula and 4 more	66 hr
Dec 6, 2:08 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	GGW	Daniels, Dawson, McCone, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt and 3 more	48 hr
Dec 7, 12:08 PM MST	High Wind Watch	TFX	Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole	39 hr
Dec 7, 2:09 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	BYZ	Carter, Custer, Fallon	26 hr
Dec 8, 12:53 PM MST	High Wind Watch	BYZ	Sweet Grass	12 hr
Dec 8, 12:53 PM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	49 hr
Dec 8, 2:05 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral and 5 more	63 hr
Dec 9, 12:25 AM MST	High Wind Warning	BYZ	Sweet Grass, Wheatland	39 hr
Dec 9, 1:23 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	TFX	Beaverhead, Gallatin, Madison	28 hr
Dec 9, 10:49 PM MST	High Wind Warning	TFX	Cascade, Fergus, Judith Basin	9 hr
Dec 10, 12:56 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	TFX	Cascade, Chouteau, Glacier, Judith Basin, Lewis and Clark, Meagher and 2 more	24 hr
Dec 10, 1:29 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Granite, Lake, Missoula, Powell, Sanders	22 hr
Dec 10, 7:57 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	BYZ	Sweet Grass	4 hr
Dec 12, 7:19 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	TFX	Lewis and Clark	27 hr
Dec 12, 8:04 AM MST	Special Weather Statement	BYZ	Big Horn	116 min
Dec 14, 10:53 AM MST	Air Stagnation Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Granite, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula and 3 more	5 days
Dec 16, 6:02 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	MSO	Missoula, Ravalli	118 min
Dec 16, 6:13 AM MST	Wind Advisory	BYZ	Park, Stillwater, Sweet Grass	21 hr
Dec 16, 8:40 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	MSO	Missoula, Ravalli	3 hr
Dec 18, 11:13 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Sanders	24 hr
Dec 22, 6:49 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula, Powell and 2 more	5 hr
Dec 22, 11:43 AM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Deer Lodge, Flathead, Granite, Lake, Mineral, Missoula and 4 more	23 hr
Dec 22, 1:21 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	BYZ	Big Horn, Carbon, Custer, Powder River, Rosebud	36 hr
Dec 22, 2:36 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	TFX	Beaverhead, Gallatin, Madison	21 hr
Dec 24, 4:58 PM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	TFX	Gallatin	15 hr
Dec 25, 9:35 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	TFX	Lewis and Clark	92 min
Dec 27, 9:02 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	TFX	Lewis and Clark	4 hr
Dec 29, 4:37 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Lake, Sanders	32 hr
Dec 30, 9:15 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	TFX	Broadwater, Lewis and Clark	3 hr
Dec 30, 12:38 PM MST	Winter Weather Advisory	MSO	Flathead, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Sanders	19 hr
Dec 31, 12:02 AM MST	Dense Fog Advisory	GGW	Richland, Roosevelt, Sheridan	12 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Special Weather Statement	6
Winter
Winter Weather Advisory	16
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	8
High Wind Watch	7
Wind Advisory	5
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	10

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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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.