Alert archive / Montana / Yellowstone County
Weather alerts in Yellowstone County, Montana, 2015
79 weather alerts in 2015, 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 79
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 1
- Busiest month
- June39 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 19, 20158 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, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 9 | 4 | 56% | 27 | 89% | 8 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 2 | 0% | 13 | 69% | 20 min |
Each office's whole area, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Billings, MT: tornado warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 91 | 58 | 36% | 169 | 71% | 23 min |
| NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings | 11 | 5 | 55% | 30 | 57% | 50 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 2:25 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 30 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:17 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 9 hr |
| Mar 27, 12:45 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 32 hr |
| Mar 28, 12:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 48 min |
| Mar 30, 3:42 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 9 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:30 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 56 hr |
| Apr 11, 4:03 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 40 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:01 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 10 hr |
| Apr 13, 2:20 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 31 hr |
| Apr 24, 8:36 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 24 min |
| Apr 24, 9:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 54 min |
| May 27, 2:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 64 min |
| May 27, 6:51 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 54 min |
| May 30, 2:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 31, 4:23 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| May 31, 10:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 58 min |
| Jun 1, 1:46 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Jun 1, 2:19 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 4:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Jun 1, 6:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | 3 hr |
| Jun 1, 6:45 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Jun 2, 12:53 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 2, 1:33 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 42 min |
| Jun 2, 2:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jun 2, 7:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 37 min |
| Jun 2, 7:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 3:31 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:41 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 8:42 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Jun 9, 7:27 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:33 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | BYZ | 21 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 47 min |
| Jun 10, 3:39 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 51 min |
| Jun 10, 3:47 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 5:02 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jun 16, 5:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 57 min |
| Jun 16, 6:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 58 min |
| Jun 16, 6:20 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jun 17, 2:32 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jun 17, 5:34 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 56 min |
| Jun 18, 3:57 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:10 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jun 18, 8:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 64 min |
| Jun 18, 9:02 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 45 min |
| Jun 19, 2:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jun 19, 2:51 PM MDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 4:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 57 min |
| Jun 19, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 60 min |
| Jun 19, 4:33 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BYZ | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 7:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 53 min |
| Jun 23, 9:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 7:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jun 29, 8:45 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 4:40 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jul 10, 4:21 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 39 min |
| Jul 14, 9:35 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jul 14, 10:37 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 53 min |
| Jul 14, 11:02 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 43 min |
| Jul 16, 7:09 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jul 22, 4:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 51 min |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 2:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 54 min |
| Jul 27, 3:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 64 min |
| Jul 27, 4:54 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 111 min |
| Aug 4, 10:49 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 6:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 59 min |
| Aug 5, 6:08 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 67 min |
| Aug 5, 6:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 62 min |
| Aug 12, 10:56 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 64 min |
| Aug 25, 8:26 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 3:27 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 11 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:56 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 56 hr |
| Sep 5, 4:25 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 13, 6:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 55 min |
| Oct 11, 3:14 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 17 hr |
| Dec 9, 3:46 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 119 min |
| Dec 29, 6:23 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 3 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 9 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 19 |
| Special Weather Statement | 32 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 7 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 4 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.