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Red Flag Warnings in Montana, 2023

20 red flag warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.

Red Flag Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Red Flag Warnings
20
Busiest month
July8 red flag warnings
Busiest day
July 23, 20233 red flag warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 23, 10:33 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley10 hr
Jul 23, 1:02 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFXBlaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill and 8 more56 hr
Jul 23, 2:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSOFlathead, Glacier, Granite, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Missoula and 2 more34 hr
Jul 25, 2:55 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley18 hr
Jul 26, 2:30 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWDaniels, Phillips, Roosevelt, Sheridan, Valley19 hr
Jul 26, 2:37 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFXBlaine, Glacier, Hill, Liberty, Phillips, Pondera and 1 more18 hr
Jul 30, 2:28 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSOFlathead, Lake, Missoula, Ravalli, Sanders19 hr
Jul 31, 10:58 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSORavalli10 hr
Aug 9, 2:23 PM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley30 hr
Aug 15, 12:26 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSOFlathead, Lake, Missoula, Sanders34 hr
Aug 15, 12:26 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSOBeaverhead, Deer Lodge, Flathead, Glacier, Granite, Jefferson and 9 more3 days
Aug 16, 1:09 PM MDTRed Flag WarningTFXGlacier, Liberty, Pondera, Toole56 hr
Aug 17, 11:53 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFXBlaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Gallatin and 9 more33 hr
Aug 17, 2:05 PM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWDaniels, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Roosevelt and 2 more31 hr
Aug 29, 2:46 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFXBlaine, Hill, Phillips22 hr
Aug 29, 3:06 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley22 hr
Sep 16, 2:06 AM MDTRed Flag WarningTFXBlaine, Chouteau, Fergus, Glacier, Hill, Lewis and Clark and 5 more67 hr
Sep 16, 1:38 PM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWDaniels, Dawson, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips and 6 more55 hr
Sep 17, 2:05 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZCuster, Golden Valley, Musselshell, Rosebud, Stillwater, Sweet Grass and 3 more43 hr
Oct 16, 10:00 AM MDTRed Flag WarningGGWGarfield, McCone, Petroleum, Phillips, Valley35 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

10 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 23, 20233red flag warnings
  2. July 26, 20232red flag warnings
  3. August 15, 20232red flag warnings
  4. August 17, 20232red flag warnings
  5. August 29, 20232red flag warnings
  6. September 16, 20232red flag warnings
  7. July 25, 20231red flag warnings
  8. July 30, 20231red flag warnings
  9. July 31, 20231red flag warnings
  10. August 9, 20231red flag warnings
  11. August 16, 20231red flag warnings
  12. September 17, 20231red flag warnings

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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.