Alert archive / Montana / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Montana, 1998
4 tornado watches in 1998. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- May2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 20, 19981 tornado watches
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 4:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carter | 7 hr |
| May 26, 5:00 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Horn, Blaine, Carbon, Chouteau, Fergus, Garfield and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 5:30 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Big Horn, Carbon, Daniels, Garfield, McCone, Musselshell and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 8:15 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Custer, Dawson, Fallon, McCone, Prairie, Richland and 1 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Big Horn County2
- Carbon County2
- Garfield County2
- Musselshell County2
- Petroleum County2
- Phillips County2
- Rosebud County2
- Treasure County2
- Yellowstone County2
- McCone County2
- Carter County1
- Blaine County1
- Chouteau County1
- Fergus County1
- Golden Valley County1
- Hill County1
- Judith Basin County1
- Liberty County1
- Powder River County1
- Stillwater County1
- Toole County1
- Wheatland County1
- Daniels County1
- Valley County1
- Custer County1
- Dawson County1
- Fallon County1
- Prairie County1
- Richland County1
- Wibaux County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive19971999
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.