Alert archive / Idaho

Weather alerts in Clearwater County, Idaho

1,716 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Clearwater County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
1,716
Warnings
373
Watches
255
Advisories
844
Busiest year
2006149 alerts
Average year
49over 35 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.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%367%11 min
20094175%0
20103233%757%27 min
201110100%0
20127443%967%16 min
20133167%10%
201420100%40%
201520100%10%
2016110%2100%9 min
2017010%
2019110%0
20225420%1100%9 min
202310100%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201610100%0
201810100%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, 12:07 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMSO31 hr
Aug 15, 4:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO27 min
Aug 6, 8:41 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMSO47 hr
Jul 31, 12:11 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMSO56 hr
Jul 23, 6:24 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO36 min
Jul 16, 4:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO47 min
May 28, 6:35 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO30 min
May 28, 5:47 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO34 min
May 28, 5:38 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO52 min
Apr 24, 11:43 AM PDTFreeze WarningMSO43 hr
Mar 10, 10:42 AM PDTWinter Storm WarningMSO4 days
Jan 5, 12:03 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningMSO46 hr

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.