Alert archive / Idaho / Benewah County
Weather alerts in Benewah County, Idaho, 2016
56 weather alerts in 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Benewah County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 56
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 35
- Busiest month
- December15 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 8, 20165 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Benewah County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 39 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Spokane, WA: tornado warnings | 0 | 5 | 0% | |||
| NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 13 | 6 | 54% | 19 | 47% | 25 min |
| NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings | 10 | 4 | 60% | 22 | 36% | 28 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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 3:04 PM PST | Freezing Rain Advisory | OTX | 20 hr |
| Jan 7, 5:55 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 4 hr |
| Jan 7, 12:21 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 22 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:54 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 8 hr |
| Jan 12, 12:01 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 46 hr |
| Jan 12, 5:15 PM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | 36 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:40 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 32 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:43 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 17 hr |
| Jan 19, 3:32 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Jan 29, 11:35 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 7 hr |
| Feb 1, 8:57 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 11 hr |
| Feb 2, 5:37 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 8 hr |
| Feb 3, 4:12 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 39 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:55 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:02 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:32 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 43 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:49 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 9 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:58 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 7 hr |
| Mar 21, 11:13 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 39 hr |
| Mar 22, 2:31 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 12 hr |
| Mar 23, 3:03 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 20 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:41 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 28 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:36 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 7 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:21 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 17 hr |
| Jun 8, 1:16 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:07 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:31 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 44 min |
| Jun 8, 4:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 42 min |
| Jun 8, 4:48 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Jun 14, 2:18 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | 17 hr |
| Aug 1, 2:44 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 29 hr |
| Aug 9, 4:21 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Aug 20, 2:22 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 36 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:21 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 22 hr |
| Aug 26, 12:09 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 32 hr |
| Sep 13, 2:37 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | 17 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:54 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 52 hr |
| Oct 14, 12:46 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | 37 hr |
| Nov 22, 2:39 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 23 hr |
| Nov 27, 2:52 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 38 hr |
| Nov 29, 3:20 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 49 hr |
| Dec 2, 1:41 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 20 hr |
| Dec 3, 10:09 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 33 hr |
| Dec 5, 8:52 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 28 hr |
| Dec 6, 2:25 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 64 hr |
| Dec 7, 8:52 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 62 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:49 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 43 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:18 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 44 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:51 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Dec 18, 2:51 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 22 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:22 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 35 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:22 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Dec 19, 6:58 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 22 hr |
| Dec 22, 2:14 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 3 days |
| Dec 25, 1:59 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 22 hr |
| Dec 26, 2:53 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 53 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 4 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 4 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 25 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 6 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.