Alert archive / Montana / Madison County

Weather alerts in Madison County, Montana, 2011

57 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Madison County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
57
Warnings
25
Watches
8
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July16 alerts
Busiest day
June 8, 20113 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Madison County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings010%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings582655%7152%18 min
NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings6183%250%3 min
NWS Missoula, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings17947%2560%16 min
NWS Missoula, MT: flash flood warnings40100%0
NWS Glasgow, MT: tornado warnings12375%2100%22 min
NWS Glasgow, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings1738153%17078%27 min
NWS Glasgow, MT: flash flood warnings291066%2572%93 min
NWS Billings, MT: tornado warnings13562%875%21 min
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings1717656%19074%21 min
NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings21576%7100%40 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 4, 4:44 AM MSTAreal Flood WarningTFX3 days
Jan 10, 8:28 AM MSTAreal Flood WarningTFX3 days
Jan 16, 1:14 PM MSTAreal Flood WarningTFX53 hr
Feb 20, 10:20 PM MSTAreal Flood WarningTFX11 days
May 15, 6:39 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
May 24, 10:31 AM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX3 days
Jun 6, 2:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 6, 4:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 7, 6:27 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX18 days
Jun 7, 11:52 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX4 days
Jun 8, 11:42 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX20 days
Jun 23, 6:11 PM MDTRiver Flood WarningTFX7 days
Jun 29, 12:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jun 29, 5:38 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX9 days
Jul 3, 2:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX28 min
Jul 3, 4:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX24 min
Jul 4, 5:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX29 min
Jul 7, 5:11 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningTFX35 min
Jul 8, 1:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jul 11, 2:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jul 11, 3:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Jul 12, 12:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jul 12, 1:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 12, 5:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jul 13, 12:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jul 13, 1:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 13, 5:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Jul 14, 2:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX38 min
Jul 16, 2:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jul 25, 2:23 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Aug 1, 4:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX58 min
Aug 4, 5:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX48 min
Aug 15, 1:41 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX49 min
Aug 15, 1:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 21, 1:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX43 min
Aug 24, 2:32 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ13 hr
Aug 24, 3:02 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO13 hr
Aug 25, 3:04 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ18 hr
Aug 25, 3:54 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO16 hr
Aug 26, 3:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Aug 26, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 26, 5:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX39 min
Aug 28, 2:52 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO26 hr
Aug 29, 2:16 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO30 hr
Aug 30, 3:26 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Aug 31, 2:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementTFX47 min
Sep 5, 3:02 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO21 hr
Sep 6, 3:31 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO18 hr
Sep 19, 2:23 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ19 hr
Sep 24, 2:25 PM MDTFire Weather WatchMSO14 hr
Sep 25, 2:45 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ19 hr
Sep 25, 4:51 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO16 hr
Sep 27, 3:18 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ18 hr
Sep 29, 3:05 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ14 hr
Sep 29, 3:05 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Sep 30, 4:04 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ41 hr
Oct 2, 3:29 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ18 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.