Alert archive / Montana / Lincoln County
Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Montana, 2012
70 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Lincoln County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 70
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 11
- Advisories
- 27
- Busiest month
- July16 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 20, 20124 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Lincoln County, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 5 | 38% | 3 | 67% | 19 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Missoula, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 57 | 25 | 56% | 71 | 49% | 20 min |
| NWS Missoula, MT: flash flood warnings | 6 | 0 | 100% | 6 | 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 1:08 AM MST | Freezing Rain Advisory | MSO | 9 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:39 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 9 hr |
| Jan 10, 12:54 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 20 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:46 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | MSO | 48 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:30 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | 4 days |
| Jan 20, 2:23 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 39 hr |
| Jan 24, 4:15 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 66 hr |
| Jan 29, 3:37 AM MST | Freezing Rain Advisory | MSO | 5 hr |
| Jan 29, 10:27 AM MST | Wind Advisory | MSO | 10 hr |
| Feb 10, 4:39 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 30 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:36 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 55 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:47 AM MST | Wind Advisory | MSO | 43 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:18 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | 37 hr |
| Feb 24, 2:18 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 44 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:44 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 59 hr |
| Mar 12, 12:04 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 45 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:15 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MSO | 13 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:54 PM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 66 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:25 PM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | 43 hr |
| Mar 29, 9:07 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MSO | 48 hr |
| Apr 23, 2:41 PM MDT | Flood Watch | MSO | 5 days |
| Apr 24, 2:44 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MSO | 4 days |
| Apr 24, 6:07 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MSO | 4 days |
| Apr 24, 4:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | 42 min |
| May 10, 11:03 AM MDT | Freeze Warning | MSO | 22 hr |
| May 16, 9:35 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MSO | 24 hr |
| May 24, 10:48 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | MSO | 30 hr |
| Jun 4, 9:09 AM MDT | Flood Watch | MSO | 61 hr |
| Jun 4, 12:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jun 4, 1:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Jun 4, 7:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Jun 4, 10:08 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jun 4, 11:10 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 22 min |
| Jun 6, 3:05 AM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MSO | 18 hr |
| Jun 23, 2:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jun 23, 3:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | 49 min |
| Jun 23, 4:25 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 31 min |
| Jun 25, 1:04 PM MDT | Flood Watch | MSO | 47 hr |
| Jun 26, 6:38 AM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 52 min |
| Jun 30, 8:33 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 3:01 PM MDT | Flood Watch | MSO | 4 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:35 PM MDT | Areal Flood Warning | MSO | 6 days |
| Jul 12, 11:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jul 13, 1:01 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | 59 min |
| Jul 17, 12:57 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | MSO | 8 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:06 PM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | MSO | 31 hr |
| Jul 20, 12:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 20, 4:21 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 39 min |
| Jul 20, 4:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 59 min |
| Jul 20, 4:53 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 67 min |
| Jul 20, 6:13 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 6:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 22, 5:06 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 54 min |
| Jul 22, 9:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | MSO | 49 min |
| Jul 22, 10:38 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MSO | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 2:44 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 14 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:44 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 29 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:32 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | MSO | 24 hr |
| Oct 14, 7:28 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | MSO | 46 hr |
| Oct 19, 10:55 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | MSO | 29 hr |
| Oct 21, 2:36 PM MDT | Winter Storm Watch | MSO | 12 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:34 AM MDT | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | 25 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:34 AM MDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 48 hr |
| Nov 7, 12:04 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 53 hr |
| Dec 6, 10:22 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 52 hr |
| Dec 11, 1:51 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 21 hr |
| Dec 15, 2:57 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 60 hr |
| Dec 16, 12:35 PM MST | Winter Storm Warning | MSO | 33 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:39 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 44 hr |
| Dec 23, 2:08 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | MSO | 33 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 8 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 5 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 5 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 17 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 6 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
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.