Alert archive / Montana / Yellowstone County

Weather alerts in Yellowstone County, Montana, 2014

91 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
91
Warnings
16
Watches
8
Advisories
3
Busiest month
May29 alerts
Busiest day
May 18, 20148 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Yellowstone County, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings151127%2896%29 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Billings, MT: tornado warnings6267%650%10 min
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings1205653%15177%25 min
NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings4250%633%106 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
Feb 6, 7:43 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ77 min
Feb 9, 9:41 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ94 min
Feb 10, 7:39 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ81 min
Feb 11, 1:28 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Feb 16, 12:19 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ86 min
Feb 16, 5:04 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ71 min
Feb 22, 2:28 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Mar 3, 6:46 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ59 min
Mar 3, 7:50 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ85 min
Mar 3, 10:49 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ116 min
Mar 4, 12:42 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ108 min
Mar 6, 10:45 AM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryBYZ3 days
Mar 9, 7:53 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBYZ60 hr
Mar 21, 9:16 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ119 min
Mar 24, 9:53 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ82 min
Apr 1, 4:17 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ73 min
Apr 1, 5:35 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ85 min
Apr 2, 5:06 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ84 min
Apr 6, 1:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
Apr 6, 3:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ88 min
Apr 18, 5:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ42 min
Apr 26, 9:16 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBYZ12 hr
May 5, 3:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ61 min
May 5, 4:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ66 min
May 5, 4:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ67 min
May 5, 5:31 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 5, 5:50 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ55 min
May 15, 11:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ64 min
May 17, 10:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ54 min
May 18, 12:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
May 18, 2:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 18, 4:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ51 min
May 18, 4:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ58 min
May 18, 4:57 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
May 18, 5:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ65 min
May 18, 5:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ33 min
May 18, 6:20 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ55 min
May 24, 9:10 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ50 min
May 26, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ63 min
May 26, 8:11 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
May 26, 8:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ60 min
May 26, 9:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ30 min
May 28, 12:14 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ61 min
May 28, 2:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 28, 2:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 28, 3:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ37 min
May 28, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ59 min
May 28, 6:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
May 29, 11:37 AM MDTRiver Flood WatchBYZ49 hr
May 31, 2:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 31, 4:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC47 min
Jun 1, 4:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ43 min
Jun 4, 12:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ41 min
Jun 4, 12:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ44 min
Jun 10, 2:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 10, 2:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ30 min
Jun 10, 3:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ39 min
Jun 10, 3:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ32 min
Jun 13, 2:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 15, 8:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ30 min
Jun 16, 2:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Jun 16, 3:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ62 min
Jun 18, 5:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ46 min
Jun 20, 5:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ40 min
Jun 21, 4:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ51 min
Jun 24, 11:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ47 min
Jun 26, 12:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jun 26, 1:33 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 26, 5:15 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jun 28, 4:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ61 min
Jul 4, 4:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ35 min
Jul 4, 6:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ63 min
Jul 4, 7:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ50 min
Jul 4, 8:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ59 min
Jul 17, 5:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ53 min
Jul 21, 12:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 22, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ64 min
Jul 22, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ65 min
Aug 15, 5:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ56 min
Aug 15, 6:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ40 min
Aug 15, 6:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ24 min
Aug 15, 6:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ49 min
Aug 19, 4:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ50 min
Aug 20, 6:46 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ59 min
Aug 22, 10:03 PM MDTFlood WatchBYZ23 hr
Sep 18, 4:52 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Sep 18, 5:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ56 min
Oct 11, 10:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
Oct 15, 3:16 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ17 hr
Dec 21, 1:22 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ68 min
Dec 21, 1:36 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ39 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

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20132015

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.