Alert archive / Idaho / Ada County

Weather alerts in Ada County, Idaho, 2009

72 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Ada County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
72
Warnings
16
Watches
11
Advisories
35
Busiest month
August19 alerts
Busiest day
August 6, 200917 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Ada County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings11191%20%
Flash flood warnings2150%10%

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Boise, ID: tornado warnings10100%10%
NWS Boise, ID: severe thunderstorm warnings36392%1030%16 min
NWS Boise, ID: flash flood warnings9367%1030%60 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 3, 3:05 PM MSTWinter Storm WatchBOI23 hr
Jan 4, 1:44 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI30 hr
Jan 4, 11:04 PM MSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Jan 5, 3:13 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI26 hr
Jan 13, 5:21 AM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI10 hr
Jan 13, 3:08 PM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI21 hr
Jan 14, 2:25 PM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI22 hr
Jan 22, 11:31 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI13 hr
Jan 25, 8:53 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI5 hr
Jan 25, 3:07 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI24 hr
Feb 9, 5:48 AM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI2 hr
Feb 10, 12:33 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI22 hr
Feb 25, 3:10 PM MSTWind AdvisoryBOI27 hr
Mar 23, 1:31 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI12 hr
Mar 28, 4:16 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI44 hr
Apr 3, 11:30 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI9 hr
Apr 13, 2:51 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOI12 hr
Apr 14, 2:43 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI42 hr
May 3, 1:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
May 3, 1:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI35 min
May 11, 4:01 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI41 hr
May 12, 2:45 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOI16 hr
Jun 2, 2:07 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOI22 hr
Jun 4, 2:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 5, 3:31 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI3 hr
Jun 6, 8:32 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI3 hr
Jun 12, 9:59 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOI35 hr
Jun 13, 5:13 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI45 min
Jun 13, 6:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI109 min
Jun 14, 3:56 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOI20 hr
Jun 14, 3:22 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOI83 min
Jun 14, 4:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningBOI90 min
Jun 14, 5:48 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI64 min
Jun 15, 3:30 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOI18 hr
Jul 3, 3:54 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jul 3, 5:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOI41 min
Jul 5, 5:25 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Aug 3, 7:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI34 min
Aug 6, 7:22 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI38 min
Aug 6, 7:47 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI28 min
Aug 6, 7:52 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI38 min
Aug 6, 8:15 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Aug 6, 8:24 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI51 min
Aug 6, 9:07 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI48 min
Aug 6, 9:14 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchBOI18 hr
Aug 6, 9:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI54 min
Aug 6, 10:40 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI35 min
Aug 6, 10:56 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI3 hr
Aug 6, 12:04 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Aug 6, 12:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 6, 1:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOI61 min
Aug 6, 1:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI25 min
Aug 6, 1:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOI19 min
Aug 6, 2:03 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOI58 min
Aug 6, 3:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementBOI57 min
Aug 30, 11:57 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 30, 2:18 AM MDTFreeze WatchBOI13 hr
Sep 30, 3:08 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOI18 hr
Oct 8, 3:24 PM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI29 hr
Oct 10, 3:10 AM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI23 hr
Oct 10, 3:08 PM MDTFreeze WatchBOI24 hr
Oct 26, 3:06 PM MDTWind AdvisoryBOI12 hr
Oct 26, 7:58 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningBOI4 hr
Dec 7, 4:04 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI5 hr
Dec 11, 1:27 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI46 hr
Dec 13, 3:39 AM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI107 min
Dec 13, 5:37 PM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI15 hr
Dec 14, 1:53 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI32 hr
Dec 17, 2:36 PM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI15 hr
Dec 19, 3:01 AM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryBOI7 hr
Dec 21, 2:23 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI23 hr
Dec 29, 2:20 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOI32 hr

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.