Alert archive / Montana / Glacier County

Weather alerts in Glacier County, Montana, 2015

39 weather alerts in 2015, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Glacier County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
39
Warnings
22
Watches
13
Advisories
0
Busiest month
August26 alerts
Busiest day
August 13, 20154 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Glacier County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings010%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Glasgow, MT: tornado warnings010%
NWS Glasgow, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings653940%8672%24 min
NWS Glasgow, MT: flash flood warnings30100%40%
NWS Missoula, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings19858%1867%14 min
NWS Missoula, MT: flash flood warnings10100%30%
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings60100%0
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings20670%3926%23 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings10100%10%
NWS Billings, MT: tornado warnings30100%0
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings915836%16971%23 min
NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings11555%3057%50 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
May 30, 2:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 2, 12:39 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO24 hr
Jul 3, 1:07 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO32 hr
Jul 7, 5:14 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO16 hr
Jul 22, 3:48 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX17 hr
Jul 22, 4:59 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO16 hr
Jul 23, 3:34 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX17 hr
Jul 23, 2:50 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX30 hr
Jul 29, 3:24 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX18 hr
Jul 31, 3:17 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX25 hr
Jul 31, 11:44 AM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO17 hr
Aug 1, 4:19 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO17 hr
Aug 1, 4:32 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX16 hr
Aug 5, 10:20 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO11 hr
Aug 9, 9:19 AM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO26 hr
Aug 10, 11:16 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO12 hr
Aug 13, 3:46 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX11 hr
Aug 13, 4:31 AM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO10 hr
Aug 13, 2:27 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX55 hr
Aug 13, 2:35 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO38 hr
Aug 15, 12:31 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Aug 16, 7:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX40 min
Aug 16, 8:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Aug 19, 2:18 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO24 hr
Aug 19, 2:18 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO31 hr
Aug 20, 2:28 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO31 hr
Aug 20, 2:46 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX32 hr
Aug 23, 3:33 AM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO30 hr
Aug 23, 4:12 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX23 hr
Aug 24, 2:58 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX18 hr
Aug 26, 3:17 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX19 hr
Aug 27, 3:06 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX18 hr
Aug 27, 1:24 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO21 hr
Aug 27, 8:59 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX18 hr
Aug 28, 10:33 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO34 hr
Aug 28, 2:42 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX30 hr
Aug 31, 3:31 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX29 hr
Sep 24, 3:31 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX23 hr
Oct 12, 2:48 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX15 hr

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.