Alert archive / Montana / Beaverhead County
Weather alerts in Beaverhead County, Montana, 2013
44 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Beaverhead County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 44
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- August20 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 17, 20135 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Beaverhead County, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 4 | 43% | 10 | 40% | 21 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 138 | 69 | 50% | 206 | 51% | 22 min |
| NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings | 8 | 0 | 100% | 6 | 0% |
An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.
Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.
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 | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 10, 3:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 10, 3:04 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 41 min |
| Jun 10, 3:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 37 min |
| Jun 11, 12:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 18, 1:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 7, 6:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jul 8, 4:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 42 min |
| Jul 17, 2:22 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jul 17, 2:48 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 46 min |
| Jul 17, 4:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 43 min |
| Jul 17, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 44 min |
| Jul 26, 11:08 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 34 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:54 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Aug 1, 1:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 2:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 3:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 1:11 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 33 hr |
| Aug 10, 3:27 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 18 hr |
| Aug 11, 3:24 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 18 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:51 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 16 hr |
| Aug 15, 12:31 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 32 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:19 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 18 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:48 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 19 hr |
| Aug 22, 5:07 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 33 hr |
| Aug 23, 1:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 1:43 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Aug 24, 12:03 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 20 hr |
| Aug 24, 2:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Aug 24, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 44 min |
| Aug 25, 7:41 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 13 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:05 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 31 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Sep 5, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Sep 5, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 52 min |
| Sep 5, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 47 min |
| Sep 5, 6:34 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Sep 5, 8:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 53 min |
| Sep 5, 10:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 17, 7:23 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 52 min |
| Sep 17, 2:13 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 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 | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 12 |
| Special Weather Statement | 9 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 10 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.