Alert archive / Montana

Weather alerts in Rosebud County, Montana

3,137 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Rosebud County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,137
Warnings
1,205
Watches
519
Advisories
451
Busiest year
2011181 alerts
Average year
77over 41 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 Rosebud County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 3 minutes before, and 94% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201090100%0
20134175%1100%3 min
201430100%10%
202410100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008421760%786%37 min
200915380%475%39 min
2010411466%2273%30 min
2011361267%1191%25 min
2012440%475%25 min
2013401855%2277%21 min
2014261542%1759%26 min
2015181611%1771%19 min
201620860%1050%25 min
20176183%633%3 min
2018321747%2886%23 min
201928968%2050%23 min
202011645%1741%27 min
202118856%540%33 min
2022291066%1644%35 min
202312375%1346%18 min
2024251252%1275%32 min
2025521669%2463%31 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%1100%69 min
200910100%0
201010100%0
201120100%0
201370100%10%
201410100%0
201510100%0
201910100%0
202210100%0
202340100%0
202540100%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 7, 12:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ65 min
Sep 3, 2:19 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ31 hr
Sep 2, 12:10 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ33 hr
Aug 18, 3:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ38 min
Aug 18, 3:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ24 min
Aug 18, 3:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ38 min
Aug 18, 3:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ56 min
Aug 18, 2:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ63 min
Aug 18, 1:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ43 min
Aug 17, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ50 min
Aug 7, 12:13 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ33 hr
Jul 31, 1:23 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ61 hr

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.