Alert archive / Montana / Blaine County

Weather alerts in Blaine County, Montana, 2021

90 weather alerts in 2021, 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
90
Warnings
31
Watches
11
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July34 alerts
Busiest day
June 10, 202119 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Blaine County in 2021 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

Blaine County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%10%
Severe thunderstorm warnings15753%786%19 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings10100%10%
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings652758%9641%12 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings10100%40%

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 3, 1:24 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Jan 3, 2:26 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX64 min
Feb 24, 2:16 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX119 min
Mar 10, 2:57 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX63 min
Mar 26, 3:15 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX11 hr
Mar 27, 2:37 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX41 hr
Mar 30, 2:14 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX37 hr
Mar 31, 2:39 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX30 hr
Apr 13, 11:11 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX2 hr
Apr 29, 1:38 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX12 hr
Apr 29, 2:05 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX31 hr
Jun 4, 7:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX34 min
Jun 9, 5:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Jun 9, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX42 min
Jun 9, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 9, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX35 min
Jun 9, 8:34 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 9, 8:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX33 min
Jun 9, 8:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX18 min
Jun 9, 9:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX21 min
Jun 9, 9:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX49 min
Jun 9, 9:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX45 min
Jun 9, 9:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX23 min
Jun 9, 9:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX40 min
Jun 9, 9:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Jun 9, 10:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX28 min
Jun 9, 10:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX42 min
Jun 9, 10:51 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 9, 11:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX116 min
Jun 10, 2:11 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX34 min
Jun 10, 1:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jun 10, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 14, 9:56 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX38 hr
Jun 15, 10:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX68 min
Jun 29, 2:54 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX12 hr
Jun 30, 3:06 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX66 hr
Jul 6, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX33 min
Jul 6, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX30 min
Jul 6, 5:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX29 min
Jul 6, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX29 min
Jul 6, 6:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 6, 6:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX40 min
Jul 6, 7:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX63 min
Jul 6, 8:20 PM MDTTornado WarningTFX25 min
Jul 6, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX19 min
Jul 7, 5:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX62 min
Jul 7, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX37 min
Jul 7, 5:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX34 min
Jul 8, 11:48 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX42 min
Jul 9, 1:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX29 min
Jul 9, 1:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX35 min
Jul 9, 2:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX32 min
Jul 9, 2:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX29 min
Jul 9, 3:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX34 min
Jul 9, 3:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Jul 9, 4:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX40 min
Jul 11, 12:33 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX20 hr
Jul 11, 2:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 11, 5:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX65 min
Jul 20, 2:04 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX23 hr
Jul 21, 1:26 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX56 hr
Jul 21, 7:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX30 min
Jul 21, 8:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX27 min
Jul 21, 8:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Jul 21, 9:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX26 min
Jul 21, 9:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Jul 21, 10:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX41 min
Jul 22, 4:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Jul 31, 3:12 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX10 hr
Jul 31, 1:36 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX31 hr
Aug 3, 6:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX31 min
Aug 14, 3:39 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX11 hr
Aug 14, 2:40 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX54 hr
Aug 21, 9:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Aug 26, 4:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX25 min
Aug 26, 6:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX47 min
Aug 30, 9:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX22 min
Aug 30, 9:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Aug 30, 10:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Aug 30, 11:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX23 min
Sep 4, 2:36 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX30 hr
Sep 5, 2:10 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX18 hr
Sep 5, 3:21 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX30 hr
Sep 7, 2:32 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX22 hr
Sep 8, 12:57 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX32 hr
Sep 11, 5:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX64 min
Sep 16, 2:18 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX55 hr
Oct 4, 9:14 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX35 hr
Dec 1, 3:42 AM MSTRed Flag WarningTFX17 hr
Dec 23, 7:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX60 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.