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Tornado Warnings in Montana, 2002

22 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
22
Busiest month
August13 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 6, 20029 tornado 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
Jun 28, 9:00 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXFergus, Judith Basin30 min
Jul 8, 3:27 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXJudith Basin33 min
Jul 8, 3:55 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXFergus65 min
Jul 8, 3:58 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXJudith Basin47 min
Jul 8, 4:52 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXBlaine53 min
Jul 8, 5:01 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPetroleum59 min
Jul 8, 5:44 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWGarfield61 min
Jul 8, 7:23 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWValley52 min
Jul 23, 6:51 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXToole54 min
Aug 5, 6:18 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXJudith Basin27 min
Aug 5, 6:45 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXChouteau30 min
Aug 5, 6:59 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXChouteau46 min
Aug 5, 7:32 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXFergus58 min
Aug 5, 8:37 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPhillips53 min
Aug 5, 8:41 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPhillips49 min
Aug 5, 9:30 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPhillips60 min
Aug 6, 5:11 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXFergus64 min
Aug 6, 5:45 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPetroleum60 min
Aug 6, 6:14 PM MDTTornado WarningTFXFergus61 min
Aug 6, 6:44 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPetroleum, Phillips61 min
Aug 6, 8:03 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWPrairie57 min
Aug 6, 8:38 PM MDTTornado WarningGGWMcCone67 min

By county

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

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. Rebuilt daily.