Alert archive / Montana / Blaine County

Weather alerts in Blaine County, Montana, 2018

83 weather alerts in 2018, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Blaine County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
83
Warnings
24
Watches
4
Advisories
4
Busiest month
June21 alerts
Busiest day
June 7, 201812 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Blaine County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings4175%20%
Flash flood warnings40100%10%

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings030%
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings511669%6745%21 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings9189%617%129 min

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 25, 3:54 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX21 min
Jan 25, 4:53 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX52 min
Jan 25, 6:55 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX50 min
Feb 3, 4:04 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX116 min
Mar 18, 5:03 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX3 hr
Mar 24, 10:01 AM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX62 hr
Mar 24, 5:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Mar 27, 7:43 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX28 hr
Mar 27, 8:55 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX66 hr
Apr 11, 7:36 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX5 days
Apr 11, 7:57 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX12 hr
Apr 15, 9:45 AM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX13 days
Apr 15, 9:37 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX4 days
Apr 16, 9:52 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX35 hr
Apr 17, 6:58 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX16 hr
Apr 17, 8:24 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX10 days
Apr 19, 11:25 AM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX6 days
Apr 20, 2:30 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX29 hr
Apr 27, 10:31 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX72 hr
Apr 28, 11:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX55 min
May 1, 6:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
May 16, 3:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX32 min
May 16, 3:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX25 min
May 16, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX24 min
May 17, 2:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
May 17, 2:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX27 min
May 17, 2:39 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningTFX4 hr
May 21, 12:37 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningTFX5 hr
May 29, 8:50 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX14 hr
May 30, 10:23 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX4 days
Jun 4, 3:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX25 min
Jun 4, 3:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
Jun 4, 4:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX55 min
Jun 6, 7:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX37 min
Jun 6, 8:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX42 min
Jun 6, 8:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX3 hr
Jun 6, 9:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX29 min
Jun 6, 9:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX34 min
Jun 6, 9:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Jun 6, 10:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX15 min
Jun 6, 10:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX28 min
Jun 7, 11:56 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX64 min
Jun 7, 12:10 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningTFX3 hr
Jun 7, 12:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX50 min
Jun 7, 1:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX62 min
Jun 9, 1:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 9, 7:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jun 9, 10:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX43 min
Jun 9, 11:34 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningTFX6 hr
Jun 25, 5:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 25, 10:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX45 min
Jul 6, 4:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX32 min
Jul 6, 6:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX28 min
Jul 6, 6:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX25 min
Jul 6, 7:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX26 min
Jul 6, 8:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX35 min
Jul 6, 9:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX27 min
Jul 10, 1:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jul 10, 2:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 10, 3:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX48 min
Jul 10, 3:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Jul 10, 3:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX47 min
Jul 10, 4:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 10, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX29 min
Jul 16, 2:05 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX24 hr
Jul 17, 2:01 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX31 hr
Jul 19, 11:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Jul 20, 12:01 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX59 min
Jul 20, 2:00 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX34 hr
Jul 28, 12:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
Jul 28, 1:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
Aug 1, 11:03 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX59 hr
Aug 3, 3:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Aug 8, 3:25 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX36 hr
Aug 9, 3:02 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX3 days
Aug 11, 9:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Sep 7, 7:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Sep 7, 8:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX56 min
Sep 16, 10:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX48 min
Nov 2, 5:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX23 min
Nov 2, 6:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX58 min
Dec 1, 8:04 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX56 min
Dec 25, 8:16 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX119 min

By product

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

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.