Alert archive / Montana

Weather alerts in Judith Basin County, Montana

2,373 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Judith Basin County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,373
Warnings
706
Watches
378
Advisories
240
Busiest year
2025215 alerts
Average year
61over 39 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, 50% of tornado reports in Judith Basin County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 2 minutes before, and 40% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2012220%1100%1 min
201620100%0
2018010%
2019110%1100%2 min
2022010%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200816850%560%20 min
20099278%20%
201011827%683%22 min
20116183%30%
20126517%956%14 min
2013211243%6100%10 min
20147357%1100%27 min
2016251156%1258%17 min
2017110%10%
201815567%333%13 min
201922959%475%21 min
202011645%850%8 min
20216350%2100%11 min
202221671%633%6 min
20239456%250%11 min
202418856%757%19 min
202529969%1070%17 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2010110%1100%106 min
201120100%0
201810100%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 13, 11:52 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningTFX18 hr
Sep 13, 9:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX47 min
Sep 6, 8:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX46 min
Sep 6, 7:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX67 min
Sep 6, 6:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX52 min
Sep 6, 6:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX48 min
Sep 6, 6:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX39 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 27, 5:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTFX54 min
Aug 6, 10:51 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFX46 hr
Jul 31, 12:06 PM MDTExtreme Heat WarningTFX48 hr

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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.