Alert archive / Idaho

Weather alerts in Idaho County, Idaho

2,533 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Idaho County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,533
Warnings
785
Watches
442
Advisories
1,047
Busiest year
2006187 alerts
Average year
75over 34 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.

From 2008 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Idaho County fell inside a tornado warning, and of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2010020%

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%0
20094175%367%17 min
201016850%1486%26 min
201110100%0
201213654%1164%24 min
20136183%20%
201410100%0
20154175%10%
2016330%2100%8 min
2017040%
201810100%0
2019330%956%6 min
202010100%0
202216850%1457%13 min
202330100%10%
20245260%147%17 min
2025110%1100%9 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
201010100%0
2012030%
201320100%0
201410100%0
201810100%0
2019020%
202310100%0
202410100%10%
2025010%

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 21, 4:20 PM PDTRed Flag WarningBOI31 hr
Aug 21, 11:41 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPIH32 hr
Aug 15, 4:52 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMSO27 min
Aug 12, 12:30 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPIH32 hr
Aug 12, 12:20 PM PDTRed Flag WarningBOI3 days
Aug 9, 8:37 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPIH23 hr
Aug 8, 8:05 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPIH24 hr
Aug 7, 11:33 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPIH32 hr
Aug 6, 8:41 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMSO47 hr
Jul 31, 12:11 PM PDTRed Flag WarningMSO56 hr
Jul 31, 11:39 AM PDTRed Flag WarningBOI32 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.