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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings14657%475%19 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings30100%0
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings873066%6853%21 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings20100%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 1, 10:34 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX3 days
May 20, 9:59 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX29 hr
May 21, 2:45 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX5 days
Jun 15, 5:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Jun 21, 7:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX41 min
Jun 25, 4:30 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX45 min
Jun 25, 4:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX24 min
Jun 25, 6:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX61 min
Jul 2, 3:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC34 min
Jul 4, 1:39 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 4, 2:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
Jul 4, 3:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX40 min
Jul 4, 8:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX66 min
Jul 4, 9:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX40 min
Jul 6, 1:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 6, 1:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 6, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX41 min
Jul 6, 3:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX49 min
Jul 6, 4:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Jul 6, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX22 min
Jul 6, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX45 min
Jul 6, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX38 min
Jul 6, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX46 min
Jul 12, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX38 min
Jul 12, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX45 min
Jul 12, 4:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 13, 9:55 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX65 min
Jul 13, 10:19 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX41 min
Jul 13, 10:56 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX22 min
Jul 13, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX52 min
Jul 14, 4:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Jul 14, 4:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
Jul 14, 6:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
Jul 14, 7:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Jul 24, 1:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 24, 8:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
Jul 25, 12:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 25, 4:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX48 min
Jul 26, 5:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX35 min
Jul 27, 1:06 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX4 hr
Jul 28, 2:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Aug 6, 12:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 6, 4:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX47 min
Aug 6, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX43 min
Aug 7, 6:39 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Aug 7, 7:02 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX18 min
Aug 7, 7:43 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX99 min
Aug 9, 5:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Aug 9, 7:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX41 min
Aug 13, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 13, 4:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX48 min
Aug 13, 6:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX49 min
Aug 14, 2:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 14, 3:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX50 min
Aug 14, 3:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
Aug 21, 7:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Sep 3, 12:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
Sep 18, 3:17 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX23 hr
Sep 19, 2:24 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX8 hr
Sep 24, 2:43 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX24 hr
Sep 25, 2:45 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX31 hr
Oct 5, 1:44 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Oct 24, 2:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 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.