Alert archive / Montana / Yellowstone County

Weather alerts in Yellowstone County, Montana, 2017

74 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
74
Warnings
18
Watches
5
Advisories
1
Busiest month
June16 alerts
Busiest day
August 2, 20176 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, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings9456%875%14 min
Flash flood warnings110%1100%45 min

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings311552%5845%23 min
NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings110%1100%45 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
Jan 9, 5:05 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ115 min
Jan 10, 6:08 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ3 hr
Feb 6, 7:14 PM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ2 hr
Feb 10, 11:57 AM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryBYZ48 hr
Feb 24, 6:16 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ89 min
Feb 24, 7:53 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ112 min
Mar 10, 8:16 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ89 min
Mar 22, 7:23 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ112 min
Mar 22, 9:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ57 min
Apr 2, 6:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
Apr 4, 3:40 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ80 min
Apr 4, 5:37 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ53 min
Apr 4, 6:34 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ71 min
Apr 17, 4:09 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ81 min
Apr 23, 5:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ63 min
Apr 23, 6:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ56 min
May 7, 4:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ41 min
May 7, 5:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 7, 6:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
May 7, 7:24 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ51 min
May 7, 9:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ39 min
May 28, 12:49 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ26 min
Jun 1, 4:17 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ28 min
Jun 1, 4:39 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ51 min
Jun 7, 2:54 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningBYZ5 days
Jun 12, 2:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 12, 6:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jun 12, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ65 min
Jun 12, 7:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ32 min
Jun 12, 8:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ32 min
Jun 12, 10:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ70 min
Jun 20, 7:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ47 min
Jun 26, 3:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 28, 12:39 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 28, 1:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ48 min
Jun 28, 3:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ58 min
Jun 29, 2:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ39 min
Jun 29, 3:25 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ50 min
Jul 6, 4:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
Jul 6, 5:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ38 min
Jul 6, 5:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ62 min
Jul 9, 4:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ55 min
Jul 10, 3:30 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ17 hr
Jul 10, 1:20 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jul 10, 3:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ44 min
Jul 10, 4:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ45 min
Jul 15, 3:09 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ12 hr
Jul 15, 2:48 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ33 hr
Jul 15, 5:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ44 min
Jul 15, 5:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ64 min
Jul 16, 2:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ48 min
Jul 16, 2:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jul 16, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ62 min
Jul 20, 2:58 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Aug 1, 9:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ61 min
Aug 1, 9:26 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ49 min
Aug 1, 10:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBYZ43 min
Aug 1, 10:06 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBYZ3 hr
Aug 1, 10:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ38 min
Aug 1, 10:36 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ24 min
Aug 11, 9:33 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ27 min
Aug 13, 6:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ53 min
Aug 16, 3:09 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ12 hr
Aug 16, 2:44 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Sep 1, 2:29 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ24 hr
Sep 2, 2:50 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ54 hr
Sep 13, 6:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ26 min
Oct 3, 8:02 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ118 min
Oct 19, 2:27 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Oct 20, 5:47 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ118 min
Oct 23, 3:04 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ24 hr
Oct 24, 3:01 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ36 hr
Nov 2, 10:45 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ90 min
Nov 6, 8:09 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementBYZ111 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.