Alert archive / Florida

Weather alerts in Alachua County, Florida

3,982 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Alachua County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,982
Warnings
1,026
Watches
323
Advisories
812
Busiest year
2023280 alerts
Average year
97over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 50% of tornado reports in Alachua County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 86% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200840100%20%
201010100%0
201110100%0
201610100%0
201710100%0
201820100%0
20192150%1100%5 min
20205260%0
20216183%1100%25 min
202210100%0
202310100%0
202440100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008412734%3263%17 min
2009251348%1346%15 min
2010171324%2176%15 min
2011453424%3083%25 min
2012151127%2045%13 min
2013161319%1464%20 min
2014261638%2759%19 min
2015161131%3250%8 min
201615940%1942%24 min
2017231057%1369%21 min
2018321359%1963%13 min
20199633%1644%25 min
202016944%1471%9 min
202118761%683%20 min
2022291452%2045%12 min
2023271641%1963%20 min
2024211338%743%26 min
202510460%956%14 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008010%
201210100%0
201310100%0
2017040%
201810100%0
202220100%0
2023110%2100%30 min
20243167%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 25, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX13 min
Aug 25, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX23 min
Aug 24, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX12 min
Aug 20, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX50 min
Aug 20, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX40 min
Aug 20, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX47 min
Aug 20, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX39 min
Aug 19, 6:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX26 min
Aug 19, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX23 min
Aug 18, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX47 min
Aug 18, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX29 min
Aug 18, 5:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAX31 min

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.