Alert archive / Montana / Jefferson County

Weather alerts in Jefferson County, Montana, 2020

87 weather alerts in 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Jefferson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
87
Warnings
21
Watches
19
Advisories
0
Busiest month
August30 alerts
Busiest day
August 6, 20205 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Jefferson County, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings20100%0
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings652758%10844%14 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings10100%0

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
Jan 1, 1:06 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Jan 9, 5:51 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Jan 29, 10:02 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX118 min
Jan 30, 1:54 PM MSTFire Weather WatchTFX24 hr
Feb 23, 6:45 PM MSTSnow Squall WarningTFX30 min
Feb 23, 7:10 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX50 min
Mar 25, 2:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX61 min
Mar 25, 4:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX25 min
Apr 23, 7:42 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX33 min
Apr 30, 1:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX46 min
Apr 30, 3:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX42 min
Apr 30, 4:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
May 15, 11:59 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX61 min
May 15, 1:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
May 15, 2:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX51 min
May 15, 4:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX3 hr
May 15, 7:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX112 min
May 19, 1:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
May 19, 2:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 19, 5:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 19, 11:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX34 min
May 30, 5:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jun 5, 8:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX32 min
Jun 6, 4:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX33 min
Jun 14, 9:38 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX37 min
Jun 24, 2:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 24, 6:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Jun 24, 6:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX33 min
Jun 27, 7:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX25 min
Jun 27, 7:34 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX26 min
Jul 3, 5:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX44 min
Jul 4, 2:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 16, 2:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO30 hr
Jul 17, 2:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 23, 11:39 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 23, 2:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX35 min
Jul 24, 9:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX29 min
Aug 5, 3:01 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX23 hr
Aug 6, 1:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 6, 2:23 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX31 hr
Aug 6, 4:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX27 min
Aug 6, 5:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX25 min
Aug 6, 5:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX26 min
Aug 6, 6:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX32 min
Aug 9, 1:57 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO21 hr
Aug 9, 2:27 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX21 hr
Aug 10, 11:22 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO58 hr
Aug 10, 11:42 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX57 hr
Aug 16, 1:48 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX38 hr
Aug 17, 12:28 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO20 hr
Aug 18, 3:29 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX65 hr
Aug 19, 2:34 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO31 hr
Aug 19, 2:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 19, 3:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Aug 19, 5:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX30 min
Aug 19, 5:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX35 min
Aug 21, 3:50 AM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO27 hr
Aug 22, 3:32 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO17 hr
Aug 25, 4:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Aug 25, 4:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX22 min
Aug 26, 2:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Aug 27, 2:47 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO24 hr
Aug 28, 4:01 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX11 hr
Aug 28, 2:19 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO34 hr
Aug 28, 2:36 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX33 hr
Aug 30, 2:54 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX12 hr
Aug 31, 3:09 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX66 hr
Sep 3, 11:14 AM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO25 hr
Sep 3, 2:50 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX21 hr
Sep 4, 11:21 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX16 hr
Sep 4, 11:21 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX33 hr
Sep 4, 12:29 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO34 hr
Sep 12, 3:47 AM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX24 hr
Sep 12, 1:55 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO18 hr
Sep 13, 3:17 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX40 hr
Sep 13, 7:40 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO37 hr
Sep 16, 1:50 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO23 hr
Sep 17, 1:08 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO32 hr
Sep 22, 2:46 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX24 hr
Sep 23, 2:37 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX30 hr
Oct 8, 1:57 PM MDTFire Weather WatchTFX12 hr
Oct 9, 1:46 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX42 hr
Oct 9, 11:27 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO31 hr
Oct 23, 4:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Nov 4, 11:35 AM MSTRed Flag WarningMSO30 hr
Nov 11, 7:20 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX85 min
Nov 25, 9:00 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementTFX3 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.