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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Custer County, Montana, 2025

55 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2025. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Custer County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
55
Busiest month
July24 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 16, 20258 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

19 of 55 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Custer County in 2025 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 10 of 17 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 23 minutes after it went out.

Custer County, 2025

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings551965%1759%23 min

Each office's whole area, 2025

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings2607770%21367%27 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
Apr 27, 4:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ38 min
Apr 27, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ59 min
Apr 27, 6:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ55 min
Apr 27, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ52 min
Apr 27, 7:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ61 min
Apr 27, 8:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ80 min
May 11, 6:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ29 min
May 11, 6:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ48 min
May 11, 6:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ31 min
Jun 11, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ33 min
Jun 12, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ37 min
Jun 13, 8:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ53 min
Jun 13, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ32 min
Jun 13, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ35 min
Jun 13, 9:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ62 min
Jun 13, 10:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ75 min
Jun 15, 8:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ44 min
Jun 15, 9:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ54 min
Jun 15, 9:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ38 min
Jun 15, 9:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ64 min
Jun 15, 9:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ26 min
Jun 15, 10:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ31 min
Jun 15, 10:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ46 min
Jun 15, 10:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ62 min
Jun 20, 3:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ21 min
Jun 20, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ17 min
Jun 20, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ59 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ64 min
Jul 5, 4:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ60 min
Jul 5, 5:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ59 min
Jul 19, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ40 min
Jul 19, 6:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ60 min
Jul 19, 7:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ46 min
Jul 20, 5:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ38 min
Jul 20, 6:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ24 min
Jul 20, 6:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ48 min
Jul 20, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ58 min
Jul 21, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ58 min
Jul 21, 5:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ62 min
Jul 21, 6:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ66 min
Jul 25, 4:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ26 min
Jul 25, 5:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ53 min
Jul 28, 8:22 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ53 min
Jul 28, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ45 min
Jul 29, 3:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ67 min
Jul 29, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ49 min
Jul 29, 4:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ41 min
Jul 29, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatBYZ54 min
Jul 29, 5:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ32 min
Jul 29, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ55 min
Jul 29, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ66 min
Aug 7, 7:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ67 min
Aug 7, 9:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBYZ75 min
Aug 7, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ21 min
Aug 17, 10:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ49 min

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.