Weather Center: Montana

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1 high wind warning touches Montana. 1 high wind warning (touching Montana)

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NWS alerts checked 18:26Z · Data: NOAA/NWS

Sources & update times

SPC Day 1 outlook issued 16:14Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 2 outlook issued 16:39Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC Day 3 outlook issued 08:22Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC discussions checked 18:26Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

SPC storm reports checked 18:25Z · Data: NOAA/SPC

WPC Day 1 outlook issued 15:58Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 2 outlook issued 08:10Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

WPC Day 3 outlook checked 18:25Z · Data: NOAA/WPC

Each feed is judged on its own clock. The masthead’s reading is the site’s publishing health, which is a different thing: a publishing delay does not make a freshly read warning stale, and a fresh check does not make an old outlook newly issued.

NWS warnings / MRMS selected rainfall: feeds current

NWS warnings: Feed current; checked 18:26Z.

MRMS selected rainfall: Feed current; checked 18:25Z.

Checked means retrieved, not newly issued. Each graphic retains its issue, observation, initialization or valid time. Site publishing status is separate.

Hazard & forecast product

Rain in the past 24 hours, MRMS radar estimate

Source: NOAA MRMS

Rain that fell: MRMS radar estimate, 24 hours, in inches

0.01 to 0.1 in
0.1 to 0.25 in highest in the state
0.25 to 0.5 in
0.5 to 0.75 in
0.75 to 1 in
1 to 1.5 in
1.5 to 2 in
2 to 3 in
3 to 4 in
4 to 6 in
6 to 8 in
8 to 10 in
10 in or more
No radar estimate

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High Wind Warning 1

MRMS radar estimate of the rain that fell, the 24 hours 7 Nov 18:00Z to 18:00Z · Data: NOAA/MRMS. A measurement of the past, from radar alone: not a forecast, and not corrected to rain gauges. Warnings and watches are as of 18:26Z (now), not for the hours the rain fell in.

Everything on the map, as a list

Rain that fell in the 24 hours to 18:00Z: up to 8 to 10 in anywhere on the map, by radar estimate
High Wind Warning: East Glacier Park Region; Northern High Plains; Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera; Southern High Plains; Eastern Toole and Liberty; Hill County; Northern Blaine County; Eastern Pondera and Eastern Teton; Western and Central Chouteau County; Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine; Cascade County below 5000ft; Judith Basin County and Judith Gap, until 9 Nov 03:00Z

Rain in the past 24 hours for Montana

MRMS radar estimate · the past, not a forecast

Most anywhere in Montana: 0.1 to 0.25 in

MRMS estimates 0.1 to 0.25 in fell at the most, somewhere in the state in the 24 hours to 18:00Z.

The highest cell anywhere in the state, from its outline; not every point in it.

When: 7 Nov 18:00Z to 18:00Z: the 24 hours MRMS summed. Written 18:07Z.
Limits: Radar alone, not corrected to rain gauges: it can be too high or too low, most far from a radar, in mountains, and where hail or melting snow brightens the echo. It says nothing of what will fall, and is not a flood warning.

Forecast details

NOAA’s Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor system (MRMS) mosaics every radar into one estimate of the rain that fell, a grid about 1 km across, which this page samples every 0.05°, about 5 km. This is its radar-only estimate, written every hour. River Forecast Centers make a slower estimate corrected to rain gauges; this is not that. MRMS products.

Coming days · Montana

2026-11-08Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined 2026-11-09Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined 2026-11-10Severe storms: No severe area outlinedFlash flooding: No excessive-rainfall area outlined

These are daily outlooks, not arrival times. Days 4–8 retain SPC’s predictability and potential-too-low wording in the dated outlook controls.

Severe storms

Marginal risk (1 of 5) at its highest nationally. SPC’s convective outlook, on its own scale.

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Recent reports

Reporting period: 12Z 8 Nov – 12Z 9 Nov

0 tornado · 0 wind · 0 hail in Montana

Preliminary reports: a count of reports, not of storms. None reported is not proof that nothing happened.

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No watches or mesoscale discussions in Montana. Watches, discussions and warnings in the Live tracker

Warnings in Montana

1 warning touching Montana

1 warning touches Montana, most urgent first. A warning across a state line is counted here and in the other state.

NWS alerts checked 18:26Z · Data: NOAA/NWS

Since 17:27Z: no change in the warnings.

Warnings 1

High wind East Glacier Park Region; Northern High Plains; Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera; Southern High Plains; Eastern Toole and Liberty; Hill County; Northern Blaine County; Eastern Pondera and Eastern Teton; Western and Central Chouteau County; Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine; Cascade County below 5000ft; Judith Basin County and Judith Gap until 9 Nov 03:00Z Track: High Wind Warning, East Glacier Park Region; Northern High Plains; Eastern Glacier, Western Toole, and Central Pondera; Southern High Plains; Eastern Toole and Liberty; Hill County; Northern Blaine County; Eastern Pondera and Eastern Teton; Western and Central Chouteau County; Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine; Cascade County below 5000ft; Judith Basin County and Judith Gap

All 1 warning touching Montana, with their full text, in the Live tracker

19 warnings elsewhere in the country: the national list. Track Montana live

Not an official warning service. Warnings and watches are the National Weather Service’s, outlooks and reports the Storm Prediction Center’s and the Weather Prediction Center’s (Data: NOAA/NWS, NOAA/SPC, NOAA/WPC). When a warning is issued for you, act on it, and use weather.gov or a NOAA Weather Radio for where you are.

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