Alert archive / Idaho / Minidoka County

Weather alerts in Minidoka County, Idaho, 2012

25 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Minidoka County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
25
Warnings
9
Watches
0
Advisories
0
Busiest month
August10 alerts
Busiest day
September 1, 20126 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 Minidoka County in 2012 had a tornado report inside them.

Minidoka County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings2150%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings7186%1100%23 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pocatello, ID: tornado warnings2150%2100%20 min
NWS Pocatello, ID: severe thunderstorm warnings14379%1225%35 min
NWS Pocatello, ID: flash flood warnings30100%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, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 24, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH62 min
May 4, 5:29 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH91 min
Jun 4, 8:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH85 min
Jul 9, 5:44 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH61 min
Jul 14, 1:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH21 min
Jul 22, 4:01 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH59 min
Jul 22, 5:05 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH55 min
Aug 5, 9:55 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH65 min
Aug 5, 10:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH64 min
Aug 21, 4:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH62 min
Aug 26, 2:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH63 min
Aug 26, 4:12 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH63 min
Aug 26, 7:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH59 min
Aug 26, 7:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH38 min
Aug 26, 8:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH48 min
Aug 31, 4:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH57 min
Aug 31, 5:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH62 min
Aug 31, 6:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH56 min
Aug 31, 8:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH88 min
Aug 31, 9:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH48 min
Sep 1, 3:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH41 min
Sep 1, 3:28 PM MDTTornado WarningPIH47 min
Sep 1, 4:10 PM MDTTornado WarningPIH50 min
Oct 16, 11:59 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPIH42 min
Oct 25, 4:16 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementPIH44 min

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.