Alert archive / Idaho / Benewah County
Weather alerts in Benewah County, Idaho, 2020
76 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 76
- Warnings
- 11
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 41
- Busiest month
- May17 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 17, 20206 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, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 20 | 13 | 35% | 49 | 47% | 15 min |
| NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 4 | 0% |
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 3, 1:40 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 24 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:55 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 50 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:16 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 25 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:31 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 36 hr |
| Jan 8, 2:42 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 25 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:15 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 51 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:15 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 43 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:56 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 48 hr |
| Jan 13, 5:10 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 3 days |
| Jan 15, 2:36 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Jan 16, 1:24 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 14 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:16 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Jan 30, 2:34 PM PST | High Wind Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Jan 31, 2:18 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 28 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:31 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 20 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:56 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 38 hr |
| Feb 5, 6:16 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 37 hr |
| Feb 6, 1:47 PM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 24 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:54 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 40 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:43 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 40 hr |
| Feb 14, 2:42 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 67 hr |
| Feb 22, 3:47 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 42 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:26 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 28 hr |
| Mar 12, 3:29 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 44 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:29 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 28 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:39 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 44 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:28 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 10 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:34 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Apr 4, 2:32 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 18 hr |
| May 2, 10:26 AM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | OTX | 9 hr |
| May 2, 1:19 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 2, 6:03 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 42 min |
| May 2, 9:33 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 42 min |
| May 5, 2:38 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 40 hr |
| May 17, 2:01 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| May 17, 3:21 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 39 min |
| May 17, 3:29 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 46 min |
| May 17, 4:14 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 46 min |
| May 17, 4:35 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 40 min |
| May 17, 4:59 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 31 min |
| May 19, 9:59 AM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | 43 hr |
| May 19, 11:20 AM PDT | River Flood Watch | OTX | 28 hr |
| May 30, 4:22 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 30, 7:32 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 58 min |
| May 30, 8:04 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 41 min |
| May 30, 8:06 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 12, 5:00 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:23 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 52 min |
| Jul 26, 2:54 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 6 days |
| Aug 13, 2:13 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:37 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 4 days |
| Aug 27, 1:49 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 36 hr |
| Aug 28, 1:41 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 43 hr |
| Sep 6, 5:30 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 39 hr |
| Sep 12, 2:58 PM PDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | OTX | 14 hr |
| Oct 12, 2:38 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:42 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | OTX | 18 hr |
| Oct 13, 2:42 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 18 hr |
| Oct 15, 2:56 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 30 hr |
| Oct 21, 4:01 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 16 hr |
| Oct 21, 2:50 PM PDT | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Oct 22, 2:52 PM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 43 hr |
| Oct 23, 3:36 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Oct 26, 10:49 AM PDT | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 4 days |
| Nov 9, 2:09 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 48 hr |
| Nov 12, 9:04 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 43 hr |
| Nov 18, 1:59 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 20 hr |
| Nov 30, 12:57 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 9 hr |
| Nov 30, 2:32 PM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 9 days |
| Dec 10, 2:03 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 23 hr |
| Dec 10, 9:57 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 7 hr |
| Dec 16, 12:06 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 24 hr |
| Dec 21, 4:07 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 24 hr |
| Dec 25, 2:39 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 36 hr |
| Dec 29, 4:03 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 58 hr |
| Dec 29, 4:03 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 58 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.
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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.