Alert archive / Montana

Weather alerts in Hill County, Montana

1,677 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Hill County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
1,677
Warnings
609
Watches
279
Advisories
197
Busiest year
2025152 alerts
Average year
41over 41 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, of tornado reports in Hill County fell inside a tornado warning, and 88% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20123167%0
201550100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008241538%1479%19 min
20093167%560%27 min
20108450%250%12 min
20118450%450%1 min
2012131023%1669%30 min
2013151127%3040%16 min
20143233%650%24 min
20155340%1225%43 min
201613377%1450%20 min
201712925%967%18 min
20185180%633%13 min
201912833%1127%21 min
20208450%1155%7 min
2021440%617%5 min
2022321844%2383%30 min
20237271%333%16 min
202419953%1392%22 min
202528968%1669%25 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201110100%0
201820100%0
2022020%
202320100%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 25, 2:54 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningTFX33 hr
Sep 6, 10:04 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningTFX3 hr
Sep 6, 9:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningTFX3 hr
Sep 2, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTFX79 min
Sep 2, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTFX62 min
Sep 2, 3:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTFX53 min
Aug 29, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX67 min
Aug 27, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX54 min
Aug 27, 6:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX54 min
Aug 23, 3:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX91 min
Aug 23, 3:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX57 min
Aug 23, 2:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX62 min

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.