Alert archive / Montana / Madison County
Weather alerts in Madison County, Montana, 2016
35 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 35
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 1
- Busiest month
- August18 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 6, 20165 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, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 2 | 0% | |||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Great Falls, MT: tornado warnings | 5 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS Great Falls, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 106 | 48 | 55% | 177 | 60% | 20 min |
| NWS Great Falls, MT: flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 6 | 33% | 0 min |
| NWS Missoula, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 19 | 14 | 26% | 41 | 46% | 12 min |
| NWS Missoula, MT: flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Billings, MT: tornado warnings | 4 | 0 | 100% | 4 | 0% | |
| NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 97 | 42 | 57% | 164 | 68% | 22 min |
| NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Glasgow, MT: tornado warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS Glasgow, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 144 | 78 | 46% | 242 | 78% | 28 min |
| NWS Glasgow, MT: flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1 | 100% | 7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 12:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 55 min |
| Jun 7, 12:50 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 16, 12:11 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 34 min |
| Jul 3, 1:46 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 31 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 91 min |
| Jul 21, 2:31 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 31 hr |
| Jul 29, 2:22 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 24 hr |
| Jul 30, 2:13 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 30 hr |
| Jul 31, 8:59 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 12 hr |
| Jul 31, 8:11 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 16 hr |
| Aug 1, 12:35 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 35 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:28 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 13 hr |
| Aug 2, 3:15 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 42 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:22 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 21 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:01 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 10 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 3:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 50 min |
| Aug 6, 4:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 5:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 53 min |
| Aug 7, 1:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 2:06 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 13 hr |
| Aug 9, 3:14 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 18 hr |
| Aug 18, 9:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 53 min |
| Aug 20, 2:18 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | MSO | 21 hr |
| Aug 21, 11:02 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 34 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:11 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 18 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:51 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 21 hr |
| Sep 1, 11:26 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 34 hr |
| Sep 1, 1:45 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | MSO | 30 hr |
| Oct 2, 4:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 39 min |
| Oct 2, 5:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 42 min |
| Oct 5, 5:14 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | TFX | 61 min |
| Dec 27, 12:19 PM MST | Areal Flood Warning | TFX | 48 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:49 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | TFX | 60 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 4 |
| Special Weather Statement | 10 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 12 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 7 |
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.