Alert archive / Montana / Cascade County

Weather alerts in Cascade County, Montana, 2008

61 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Cascade County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
61
Warnings
33
Watches
11
Advisories
3
Busiest month
July22 alerts
Busiest day
July 4, 20087 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Cascade County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings221341%1385%22 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings70100%30%
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings1417448%14172%19 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings3167%333%3 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
Mar 24, 12:22 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX9 hr
Apr 13, 6:05 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX11 hr
Apr 14, 4:38 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX15 hr
May 17, 2:45 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX13 hr
May 18, 4:00 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX17 hr
May 20, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX48 min
May 24, 11:27 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX6 days
May 25, 8:28 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX55 hr
May 28, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX39 min
Jun 1, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX44 min
Jun 2, 1:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 10, 9:54 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jun 10, 12:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX67 min
Jun 11, 9:15 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX30 hr
Jun 12, 11:45 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX24 hr
Jun 13, 11:56 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX24 hr
Jun 15, 12:24 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX5 days
Jun 17, 5:21 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jun 17, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jul 1, 1:26 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 1, 2:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 1, 6:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jul 4, 1:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jul 4, 2:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 4, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX39 min
Jul 4, 5:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX52 min
Jul 4, 5:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX52 min
Jul 4, 5:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jul 4, 5:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX45 min
Jul 4, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX38 min
Jul 4, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX48 min
Jul 4, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX47 min
Jul 4, 8:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jul 17, 11:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX36 min
Jul 22, 3:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jul 23, 8:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX51 min
Jul 23, 9:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX54 min
Jul 23, 10:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX50 min
Jul 29, 2:08 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX31 hr
Jul 31, 4:19 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX16 hr
Jul 31, 12:35 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX7 hr
Jul 31, 8:25 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX25 hr
Aug 2, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr
Aug 2, 8:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Aug 7, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX27 min
Aug 8, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX44 min
Aug 9, 11:46 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Aug 9, 12:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 9, 2:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX45 min
Aug 9, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX38 min
Aug 9, 3:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX55 min
Aug 9, 5:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Aug 18, 6:17 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX23 hr
Aug 19, 5:43 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX14 hr
Aug 19, 12:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Aug 19, 1:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 24, 4:08 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX17 hr
Aug 24, 9:08 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX27 hr
Aug 31, 12:07 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX38 min
Aug 31, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX44 min
Dec 13, 4:33 AM MSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr

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.