Alert archive / Montana / Cascade County

Weather alerts in Cascade County, Montana, 2014

52 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
52
Warnings
15
Watches
3
Advisories
3
Busiest month
May21 alerts
Busiest day
May 28, 201411 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, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings15847%1479%18 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings020%
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings422345%6763%22 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings010%

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
Apr 22, 4:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
May 4, 2:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
May 4, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX38 min
May 4, 3:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 4, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX46 min
May 15, 7:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX49 min
May 15, 7:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX51 min
May 24, 5:15 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX6 hr
May 24, 11:01 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX36 hr
May 27, 6:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC48 min
May 28, 2:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 28, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 28, 4:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX52 min
May 28, 4:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX49 min
May 28, 4:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX39 min
May 28, 4:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX43 min
May 28, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX45 min
May 28, 5:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX51 min
May 28, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX51 min
May 28, 5:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX56 min
May 31, 4:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
May 31, 5:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
Jun 12, 10:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX63 min
Jun 12, 10:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX50 min
Jun 12, 11:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX40 min
Jun 13, 1:45 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX45 min
Jun 13, 1:49 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX41 min
Jun 13, 2:16 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Jun 13, 2:17 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jun 13, 2:33 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX42 min
Jun 13, 2:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX50 min
Jun 24, 4:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX42 min
Jun 27, 7:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX41 min
Jul 3, 5:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Jul 17, 2:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 22, 2:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jul 22, 3:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Jul 22, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX40 min
Jul 22, 6:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX40 min
Jul 23, 7:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Jul 23, 8:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 23, 9:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Aug 15, 12:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Aug 15, 12:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 15, 2:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Aug 15, 2:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX39 min
Aug 15, 2:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Aug 15, 3:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
Aug 15, 3:29 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTFX6 hr
Aug 15, 3:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX46 min
Aug 15, 3:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX50 min
Oct 15, 3:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX75 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.