Alert archive / Montana / Yellowstone County

Weather alerts in Yellowstone County, Montana, 2013

135 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Yellowstone County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
135
Warnings
42
Watches
9
Advisories
2
Busiest month
June39 alerts
Busiest day
May 27, 201310 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

0 of 2 tornado warnings covering Yellowstone County in 2013 had a tornado report inside them.

Yellowstone County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings20100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings351946%4587%24 min
Flash flood warnings5260%757%16 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Billings, MT: tornado warnings15287%540%7 min
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings19611840%32075%24 min
NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings441566%3557%52 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 19, 7:25 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBYZ47 hr
May 23, 5:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
May 23, 6:21 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ39 min
May 23, 6:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ43 min
May 26, 2:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
May 26, 3:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ43 min
May 26, 3:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 26, 4:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ59 min
May 26, 4:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ45 min
May 26, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ57 min
May 26, 5:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ44 min
May 26, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 26, 6:45 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZ45 min
May 26, 6:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
May 26, 7:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ36 min
May 26, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ63 min
May 26, 8:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ60 min
May 26, 8:50 PM MDTTornado WarningBYZ40 min
May 26, 9:13 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZ3 hr
May 27, 11:59 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ61 min
May 27, 1:06 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ54 min
Jun 2, 7:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 7, 10:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ35 min
Jun 10, 6:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ24 min
Jun 10, 10:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ57 min
Jun 11, 12:05 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Jun 11, 1:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 11, 4:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 11, 5:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ56 min
Jun 12, 10:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ44 min
Jun 13, 11:28 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Jun 13, 11:33 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ42 min
Jun 13, 11:44 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ46 min
Jun 13, 11:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ46 min
Jun 13, 12:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ49 min
Jun 13, 12:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ31 min
Jun 13, 12:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jun 13, 1:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC12 hr
Jun 13, 4:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Jun 13, 6:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ44 min
Jun 13, 6:55 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ50 min
Jun 13, 7:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ47 min
Jun 13, 8:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jun 13, 9:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ57 min
Jun 13, 10:20 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZ3 hr
Jun 13, 10:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ30 min
Jun 13, 10:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ25 min
Jun 13, 10:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ37 min
Jun 19, 4:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Jun 19, 6:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ28 min
Jun 19, 7:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Jun 19, 8:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ47 min
Jun 22, 2:05 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Jun 22, 2:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
Jun 22, 2:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZ3 hr
Jun 24, 11:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ35 min
Jun 24, 11:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ47 min
Jun 29, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ61 min
Jun 29, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ57 min
Jun 29, 9:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ66 min
Jul 4, 3:48 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 4, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ45 min
Jul 4, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ31 min
Jul 4, 5:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ42 min
Jul 4, 6:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ57 min
Jul 4, 6:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ51 min
Jul 6, 10:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Jul 7, 2:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Jul 7, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 7, 6:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Jul 8, 1:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 8, 4:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ41 min
Jul 8, 4:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ62 min
Jul 8, 4:35 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ55 min
Jul 8, 4:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 8, 5:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ57 min
Jul 8, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ63 min
Jul 12, 2:32 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jul 13, 3:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ54 min
Jul 13, 6:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ60 min
Jul 24, 8:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ51 min
Jul 27, 4:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ59 min
Jul 28, 3:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ44 min
Jul 28, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ56 min
Jul 28, 3:56 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 28, 5:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
Jul 28, 5:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ42 min
Jul 28, 8:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ64 min
Jul 29, 8:58 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ47 min
Jul 30, 3:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 1, 1:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 hr
Aug 1, 4:55 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Aug 1, 7:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ52 min
Aug 1, 7:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ53 min
Aug 1, 8:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ64 min
Aug 1, 8:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ64 min
Aug 1, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ58 min
Aug 2, 12:27 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
Aug 2, 4:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Aug 3, 1:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Aug 5, 2:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Aug 5, 4:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ35 min
Aug 5, 6:08 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ52 min
Aug 5, 7:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ58 min
Aug 9, 1:21 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ69 min
Aug 9, 2:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ36 min
Aug 12, 2:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Aug 12, 6:51 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZ4 hr
Aug 12, 7:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ65 min
Aug 12, 8:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
Aug 12, 10:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
Aug 12, 11:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ49 min
Aug 24, 5:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ42 min
Aug 28, 2:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Sep 5, 4:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ42 min
Sep 5, 5:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ24 min
Sep 5, 10:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ49 min
Sep 6, 3:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ88 min
Sep 7, 9:49 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBYZ40 hr
Sep 7, 8:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ44 min
Sep 7, 9:09 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZ3 hr
Sep 7, 9:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ48 min
Sep 7, 10:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ32 min
Sep 8, 12:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Sep 8, 1:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Sep 8, 4:49 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Sep 8, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ41 min
Sep 8, 6:27 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
Sep 8, 6:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Sep 14, 10:40 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ35 min
Sep 14, 1:08 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBYZ3 hr
Sep 24, 10:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ57 min
Nov 8, 1:28 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ47 min
Nov 8, 1:50 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Dec 15, 2:09 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ51 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.