Alert archive / Idaho / Butte County

Weather alerts in Butte County, Idaho, 2018

84 weather alerts in 2018, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Butte County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
84
Warnings
34
Watches
10
Advisories
14
Busiest month
August22 alerts
Busiest day
May 31, 20185 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 2 tornado warnings covering Butte County in 2018 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 5 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

Butte County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings2150%50%
Severe thunderstorm warnings10550%580%22 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pocatello, ID: tornado warnings10370%1414%12 min
NWS Pocatello, ID: severe thunderstorm warnings652069%10670%17 min
NWS Pocatello, ID: flash flood warnings110%2124%40 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 9, 8:07 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPIH3 hr
Mar 22, 5:23 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningPIH18 hr
Mar 22, 6:16 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningPIH18 hr
Mar 22, 6:30 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningPIH42 hr
Mar 22, 6:43 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningPIH18 hr
Apr 7, 5:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH38 min
Apr 7, 6:07 PM MDTTornado WarningPIH23 min
May 4, 7:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH53 min
May 12, 3:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH21 min
May 17, 1:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH47 min
May 20, 3:28 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH92 min
May 20, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH50 min
May 22, 3:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH53 min
May 25, 3:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH47 min
May 27, 2:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH42 min
May 27, 2:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH34 min
May 27, 3:22 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH38 min
May 27, 3:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH31 min
May 30, 8:32 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH88 min
May 31, 12:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
May 31, 1:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 31, 3:27 PM MDTTornado WarningPIH34 min
May 31, 3:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH44 min
May 31, 6:38 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH82 min
Jun 17, 12:17 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 17, 3:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH39 min
Jun 21, 1:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH32 min
Jun 21, 1:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH51 min
Jun 21, 2:28 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 10, 3:48 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH17 hr
Jul 16, 2:21 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH39 min
Jul 25, 2:14 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH61 min
Jul 25, 9:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH29 min
Jul 31, 2:51 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH30 hr
Aug 1, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH39 min
Aug 1, 4:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH43 min
Aug 1, 4:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH46 min
Aug 1, 9:19 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH24 hr
Aug 2, 9:41 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH24 hr
Aug 5, 8:26 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH64 min
Aug 8, 1:55 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH24 hr
Aug 9, 1:31 PM MDTHeat AdvisoryPIH55 hr
Aug 9, 2:14 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH3 days
Aug 15, 2:03 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH24 hr
Aug 16, 3:39 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH48 hr
Aug 17, 1:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 17, 5:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH39 min
Aug 17, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH41 min
Aug 17, 6:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH35 min
Aug 17, 7:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH45 min
Aug 19, 1:52 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH13 hr
Aug 19, 1:52 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH30 hr
Aug 22, 3:38 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH17 hr
Aug 23, 1:48 AM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH11 hr
Aug 23, 1:04 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH56 hr
Aug 26, 9:32 AM MDTWind AdvisoryPIH10 hr
Sep 6, 2:58 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH16 hr
Sep 6, 1:52 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH25 hr
Sep 7, 2:30 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH31 hr
Sep 9, 1:37 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH31 hr
Sep 13, 2:07 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH24 hr
Sep 14, 2:14 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH31 hr
Sep 15, 2:08 PM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH31 hr
Sep 20, 12:48 PM MDTFire Weather WatchPIH23 hr
Sep 21, 11:40 AM MDTRed Flag WarningPIH32 hr
Sep 23, 4:32 AM MDTFrost AdvisoryPIH28 hr
Sep 23, 4:32 AM MDTFreeze WatchPIH33 hr
Sep 24, 1:29 PM MDTHard Freeze WarningPIH20 hr
Sep 25, 1:35 PM MDTFrost AdvisoryPIH19 hr
Oct 4, 2:26 AM MDTWind AdvisoryPIH19 hr
Oct 9, 2:38 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIH19 hr
Oct 24, 5:06 AM MDTDense Fog AdvisoryPIH7 hr
Nov 1, 2:50 AM MDTWind AdvisoryPIH41 hr
Nov 3, 2:05 AM MDTWind AdvisoryPIH40 hr
Nov 20, 1:23 PM MSTWinter Storm WatchPIH48 hr
Nov 22, 8:02 AM MSTSpecial Weather StatementPIH3 hr
Nov 22, 1:01 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningPIH47 hr
Nov 22, 1:01 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIH41 hr
Nov 27, 3:12 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIH30 hr
Nov 29, 2:09 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIH37 hr
Dec 29, 1:01 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPIH31 hr
Dec 29, 1:09 PM MSTWind AdvisoryPIH28 hr
Dec 30, 10:26 AM MSTSnow Squall WarningPIH49 min
Dec 30, 11:31 AM MSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 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.