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High Wind Watches in Montana, 2023
39 high wind watches in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 39
- Busiest month
- February11 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- December 1, 20234 high wind watches
Over time
By month
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 18, 2:07 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 47 hr |
| Jan 25, 12:39 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Stillwater, Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 13 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:10 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Blaine, Chouteau, Fergus, Hill | 11 hr |
| Jan 25, 2:38 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GGW | Dawson, Petroleum, Phillips, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt and 1 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 2, 1:50 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Blaine, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill, Judith Basin and 4 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 3, 12:56 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 12 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:48 AM MST | High Wind Watch | GGW | Phillips | 8 hr |
| Feb 4, 2:38 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 47 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:05 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 10 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:48 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Blaine, Chouteau, Fergus, Hill, Judith Basin | 25 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:57 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GGW | Petroleum, Phillips | 24 hr |
| Feb 7, 1:04 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Wheatland | 12 hr |
| Feb 10, 1:57 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 23 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:59 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Pondera, Toole | 12 hr |
| Feb 28, 1:14 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 11 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:10 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Beaverhead, Madison | 13 hr |
| Mar 12, 1:44 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Beaverhead, Cascade, Fergus, Gallatin, Glacier, Judith Basin and 5 more | 14 hr |
| Mar 30, 1:58 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Beaverhead, Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin and 10 more | 37 hr |
| Mar 31, 2:39 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | GGW | Garfield, Petroleum, Phillips | 36 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:51 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Pondera | 13 hr |
| Apr 9, 2:29 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Beaverhead, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin and 10 more | 36 hr |
| Apr 16, 1:35 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 12 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:31 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Fergus | 13 hr |
| Jun 18, 5:35 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Beaverhead, Broadwater, Gallatin, Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Madison | 9 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:28 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Beaverhead, Gallatin, Madison | 10 hr |
| Oct 15, 2:03 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | TFX | Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin and 9 more | 32 hr |
| Oct 15, 2:18 PM MDT | High Wind Watch | GGW | Garfield, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley | 20 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:21 AM MDT | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Wheatland | 10 hr |
| Nov 9, 1:19 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill and 7 more | 26 hr |
| Nov 9, 2:40 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GGW | Phillips | 23 hr |
| Nov 20, 12:03 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Pondera, Toole | 23 hr |
| Nov 30, 11:39 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 27 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:33 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 24 hr |
| Dec 1, 1:33 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Golden Valley, Sweet Grass, Wheatland | 24 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:36 PM MST | High Wind Watch | GGW | Phillips | 36 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:42 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill and 6 more | 33 hr |
| Dec 4, 3:05 AM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Pondera | 14 hr |
| Dec 7, 12:08 PM MST | High Wind Watch | TFX | Glacier, Lewis and Clark, Pondera, Teton, Toole | 39 hr |
| Dec 8, 12:53 PM MST | High Wind Watch | BYZ | Sweet Grass | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Glacier County18
- Pondera County18
- Toole County16
- Lewis and Clark County15
- Teton County14
- Fergus County10
- Chouteau County8
- Judith Basin County8
- Wheatland County7
- Blaine County7
- Hill County7
- Phillips County7
- Sweet Grass County6
- Beaverhead County6
- Madison County6
- Cascade County6
- Gallatin County6
- Golden Valley County5
- Liberty County5
- Petroleum County4
- Jefferson County3
- Broadwater County3
- Meagher County3
- Garfield County2
- Stillwater County1
- Dawson County1
- Prairie County1
- Richland County1
- Roosevelt County1
- Sheridan County1
- Valley County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.