NWS Great Falls MTSV.W 0124September 6, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Chouteau and Fergus, MT
The National Weather Service office in Great Falls issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Chouteau and Fergus in Montana, which was in force until 8:00 p.m. local time on September 6. It was the 124th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Great Falls issued in 2026. Montana had 61 severe thunderstorm warnings in September 2026, against 10 in an average September of 2008-2025 (Montana's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
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The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Great Falls MT
- Area
- Chouteau and Fergus
- State
- Montana
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 7:10 p.m. MDT, September 6, 2026
- Expires
- 8:00 p.m. MDT, September 6, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KTFX SV.W 0124
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana since 2008Every warning type in Montana
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The notice as issued
SVRTFX The National Weather Service in Great Falls has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northern Fergus County in central Montana... Southeastern Chouteau County in north central Montana... * Until 800 PM MDT. * At 709 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Geraldine, or 29 miles southeast of Fort Benton, moving northeast at 25 mph. HAZARD...Quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Damage to vehicles is expected. * Locations impacted include... Geraldine and Iliad.
What the agency told people to do
For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature's leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Montana since 2008343 a year
- Every warning type in Montana
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, September 20262,824 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels