Weather alerts in Flathead County, Montana

2,866 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Flathead County and its neighbors

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

Alerts: 2,866
Warnings: 607
Watches: 379
Advisories: 1,449
Busiest year: 2022171 alerts
Average year: 75over 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

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	145
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	42
Mesoscale Discussion	105
Special Weather Statement	326
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	21
Flash Flood Warning	6
River Flood Warning	13
Flash Flood Watch	14
Flood Watch	40
River Flood Watch	14
Areal Flood Advisory	32
River Flood Advisory	3
Winter
Blizzard Warning	10
Heavy Snow Warning	39
Snow Squall Warning	7
Winter Storm Warning	195
Blizzard Watch	2
Winter Storm Watch	184
Blowing Snow Advisory	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	23
Lake Effect Snow Advisory	3
Snow Advisory	82
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	26
Winter Weather Advisory	744
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	17
Cold
Extreme Cold Warning	2
Freeze Warning	16
Wind Chill Warning	27
Freeze Watch	2
Wind Chill Watch	2
Cold Weather Advisory	2
Frost Advisory	25
Wind Chill Advisory	53
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	41
High Wind Watch	28
Lake Wind Advisory	201
Wind Advisory	125
Fire
Red Flag Warning	81
Fire Weather Watch	48
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	9
Dense Fog Advisory	86
Freezing Fog Advisory	16

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 22, 5:27 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	48 min
Aug 22, 9:08 AM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MSO	21 hr
Aug 6, 9:41 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MSO	47 hr
Jul 31, 1:11 PM MDT	Red Flag Warning	MSO	56 hr
Jul 17, 8:58 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	40 min
Jun 29, 1:45 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	MSO	21 hr
May 31, 7:42 PM MDT	Areal Flood Warning	MSO	46 hr
May 28, 5:40 PM MDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	MSO	35 min
Apr 24, 12:43 PM MDT	Freeze Warning	MSO	43 hr
Mar 11, 9:21 AM MDT	Winter Storm Warning	MSO	3 days
Mar 11, 9:21 AM MDT	Blizzard Warning	MSO	24 hr
Mar 10, 11:52 AM MDT	High Wind Warning	MSO	54 hr

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. Rebuilt daily.