Alert archive / Montana

Weather alerts in Silver Bow County, Montana

2,158 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Silver Bow County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,158
Warnings
455
Watches
323
Advisories
820
Busiest year
2021129 alerts
Average year
62over 35 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.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%250%10 min
20093233%978%19 min
20103167%0
2011110%1100%1 min
201210100%0
20132150%1100%9 min
20143167%333%10 min
20152150%2100%6 min
2016220%2100%7 min
20173233%367%13 min
20197357%944%8 min
202110100%0
2022110%0
2023010%
202410100%10%
2025010%

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009110%250%48 min
201010100%0
201210100%0
202110100%0
2023110%1100%63 min
202410100%0
2025010%

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 12, 9:15 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO36 hr
Sep 9, 9:59 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO35 hr
Sep 5, 2:40 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO30 hr
Sep 2, 1:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO26 min
Sep 1, 10:22 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO56 hr
Aug 22, 9:08 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO35 hr
Aug 10, 6:45 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO26 hr
Aug 6, 9:41 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO47 hr
Aug 6, 8:07 AM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO13 hr
Jul 31, 1:11 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO56 hr
Jul 24, 12:15 PM MDTRed Flag WarningMSO31 hr
Jul 23, 10:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO25 min

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.