Alert archive / Montana / Cascade County
Weather alerts in Cascade County, Montana, 2009
63 weather alerts in 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 63
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest month
- July33 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 6, 20099 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, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 14 | 6 | 57% | 4 | 75% | 19 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 87 | 30 | 66% | 68 | 53% | 21 min |
| NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 10:34 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 3 days |
| May 20, 9:59 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 29 hr |
| May 21, 2:45 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 5 days |
| Jun 15, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 38 min |
| Jun 21, 7:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 41 min |
| Jun 25, 4:30 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 45 min |
| Jun 25, 4:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 24 min |
| Jun 25, 6:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 61 min |
| Jul 2, 3:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 34 min |
| Jul 4, 1:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 4, 2:44 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 46 min |
| Jul 4, 3:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 8:09 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 66 min |
| Jul 4, 9:05 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 40 min |
| Jul 6, 1:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jul 6, 1:33 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 41 min |
| Jul 6, 3:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 49 min |
| Jul 6, 4:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 4:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 22 min |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 45 min |
| Jul 6, 4:24 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 38 min |
| Jul 6, 4:44 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 46 min |
| Jul 12, 2:52 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 38 min |
| Jul 12, 3:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 45 min |
| Jul 12, 4:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 13, 9:55 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 65 min |
| Jul 13, 10:19 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 41 min |
| Jul 13, 10:56 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 22 min |
| Jul 13, 2:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 4:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 44 min |
| Jul 14, 4:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 46 min |
| Jul 14, 6:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 43 min |
| Jul 14, 7:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 44 min |
| Jul 24, 1:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jul 24, 8:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 43 min |
| Jul 25, 12:40 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jul 25, 4:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 5:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 1:06 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 12:34 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Aug 6, 4:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 47 min |
| Aug 6, 5:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 43 min |
| Aug 7, 6:39 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 51 min |
| Aug 7, 7:02 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 18 min |
| Aug 7, 7:43 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 99 min |
| Aug 9, 5:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 39 min |
| Aug 9, 7:49 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 48 min |
| Aug 13, 6:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 49 min |
| Aug 14, 2:01 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 50 min |
| Aug 14, 3:59 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 46 min |
| Aug 21, 7:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Sep 3, 12:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 43 min |
| Sep 18, 3:17 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | TFX | 23 hr |
| Sep 19, 2:24 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | 8 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:43 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | TFX | 24 hr |
| Sep 25, 2:45 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | 31 hr |
| Oct 5, 1:44 AM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:46 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 44 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 | 14 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 9 |
| Special Weather Statement | 27 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| 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.