Alert archive / Montana

Weather alerts in Daniels County, Montana

2,434 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Daniels County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,434
Warnings
787
Watches
421
Advisories
723
Busiest year
2010160 alerts
Average year
64over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 67% of tornado reports in Daniels County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 81% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
200920100%0
20109278%367%23 min
201130100%0
201910100%0
202110100%0
202210100%0
202310100%0
20246350%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008261254%1486%23 min
200910820%888%45 min
2010241538%2273%24 min
2011251540%1191%28 min
201211918%5100%33 min
201311645%3100%13 min
201412925%5100%19 min
20158625%520%51 min
2016151033%10%
20175180%0
2018191237%1070%35 min
201917853%4100%30 min
202018950%2100%12 min
202111645%633%3 min
2022211719%7100%25 min
20239544%2100%46 min
2024271641%989%19 min
202511373%10%

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910100%0
2010010%
2011220%367%24 min
201320100%0
201910100%0
202310100%10%
202510100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 14, 9:31 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningGGW12 hr
Sep 2, 11:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGW67 min
Sep 2, 10:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGW61 min
Sep 2, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGW57 min
Aug 23, 8:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGW67 min
Aug 23, 8:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGW58 min
Aug 23, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGGW61 min
Jul 31, 11:34 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGW57 hr
Jul 31, 11:20 AM MDTExtreme Heat WarningGGW49 hr
Jul 25, 9:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGGW40 min
Jul 23, 12:50 PM MDTExtreme Heat WarningGGW3 days
Jul 10, 12:30 AM MDTExtreme Heat WarningGGW6 days

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.