Alert archive / Montana / Hill County
Weather alerts in Hill County, Montana, 2018
49 weather alerts in 2018, 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 in 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 49
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 2
- Busiest month
- June13 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 10, 20185 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Hill County, 2018
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 5 | 1 | 80% | 6 | 33% | 13 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2018
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings | 0 | 3 | 0% | |||
| NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 51 | 16 | 69% | 67 | 45% | 21 min |
| NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings | 9 | 1 | 89% | 6 | 17% | 129 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 3:54 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 21 min |
| Jan 25, 4:53 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 52 min |
| Jan 25, 6:55 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 50 min |
| Feb 3, 4:04 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 116 min |
| Feb 3, 6:04 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 116 min |
| Apr 11, 7:36 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 5 days |
| Apr 14, 4:20 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | TFX | 8 days |
| Apr 16, 9:52 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 35 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:08 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | TFX | 9 days |
| Apr 17, 6:58 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | TFX | 16 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:24 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | TFX | 10 days |
| Apr 19, 11:25 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | TFX | 6 days |
| May 10, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 40 min |
| May 10, 5:12 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 48 min |
| May 10, 6:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 15 min |
| May 16, 2:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 27 min |
| May 16, 3:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 25 min |
| May 16, 3:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TFX | 24 min |
| May 21, 12:37 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | TFX | 5 hr |
| May 21, 3:19 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 11 min |
| Jun 4, 3:15 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 30 min |
| Jun 7, 12:10 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | TFX | 3 hr |
| Jun 7, 12:55 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 50 min |
| Jun 9, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 9, 6:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 24 min |
| Jun 9, 7:10 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 35 min |
| Jun 9, 7:11 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jun 9, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 33 min |
| Jun 9, 8:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 29 min |
| Jun 23, 5:42 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 48 min |
| Jun 25, 6:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 35 min |
| Jun 25, 6:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 34 min |
| Jul 10, 1:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jul 10, 2:14 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:05 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | TFX | 24 hr |
| Jul 17, 2:01 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | 31 hr |
| Jul 17, 5:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 48 min |
| Jul 19, 10:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 23 min |
| Jul 20, 2:00 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | 34 hr |
| Aug 1, 11:03 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | 59 hr |
| Aug 8, 3:25 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | TFX | 36 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:02 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | TFX | 3 days |
| Aug 11, 9:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 38 min |
| Sep 23, 4:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 42 min |
| Nov 2, 5:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 23 min |
| Nov 2, 6:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 58 min |
| Dec 25, 8:16 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 119 min |
| Dec 25, 8:08 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 82 min |
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.