Alert archive / Idaho / Washington County
Weather alerts in Washington County, Idaho, 2014
58 weather alerts in 2014, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Washington County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 58
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 36
- Busiest month
- January10 alerts
- Busiest day
- February 10, 20143 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Washington County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Boise, ID: severe thunderstorm warnings | 39 | 8 | 79% | 24 | 71% | 21 min |
| NWS Boise, ID: flash flood warnings | 26 | 1 | 96% | 7 | 14% | 142 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 4:20 AM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 7 hr |
| Jan 1, 9:20 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 14 hr |
| Jan 2, 8:11 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 15 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:45 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 13 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:42 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 21 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:15 AM MST | Freezing Rain Advisory | BOI | 4 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:17 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 50 hr |
| Jan 16, 6:14 AM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 55 hr |
| Jan 18, 2:44 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 44 hr |
| Jan 28, 3:47 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 37 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:09 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 10 hr |
| Feb 2, 11:48 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 14 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:42 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 4 days |
| Feb 10, 2:24 AM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 9 hr |
| Feb 10, 2:59 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 52 hr |
| Feb 10, 4:26 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 20 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:05 PM MST | Flood Watch | BOI | 60 hr |
| Mar 4, 10:13 AM MST | Flood Watch | BOI | 63 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:30 PM MST | Flood Watch | BOI | 45 hr |
| Mar 10, 5:30 AM MDT | River Flood Warning | BOI | 36 hr |
| Mar 10, 12:00 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BOI | 12 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:13 PM MDT | River Flood Warning | BOI | 18 hr |
| Mar 15, 1:21 PM MDT | Wind Advisory | BOI | 56 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:47 PM MDT | Flood Watch | BOI | 52 hr |
| Jul 7, 3:04 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOI | 41 hr |
| Jul 20, 1:37 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOI | 23 hr |
| Jul 22, 3:28 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOI | 25 hr |
| Jul 23, 8:40 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOI | 12 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:27 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOI | 61 hr |
| Aug 10, 2:16 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOI | 39 hr |
| Aug 12, 9:06 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOI | 27 hr |
| Aug 13, 3:48 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Aug 13, 8:08 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | BOI | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 3:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOI | 66 min |
| Aug 22, 9:03 AM MDT | Flash Flood Watch | BOI | 12 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOI | 23 min |
| Aug 30, 7:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOI | 43 min |
| Oct 15, 10:47 AM MDT | Wind Advisory | BOI | 4 hr |
| Oct 25, 8:29 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 4 hr |
| Oct 26, 2:44 PM MDT | Frost Advisory | BOI | 18 hr |
| Oct 27, 2:47 PM MDT | Freeze Warning | BOI | 19 hr |
| Nov 11, 1:47 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 3 days |
| Nov 12, 3:10 AM MST | Winter Storm Warning | BOI | 59 hr |
| Nov 12, 1:09 PM MST | Winter Storm Watch | BOI | 15 hr |
| Nov 16, 2:28 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 23 hr |
| Nov 17, 2:55 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 21 hr |
| Nov 18, 3:03 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 20 hr |
| Nov 21, 3:58 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 31 hr |
| Nov 24, 2:14 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 27 hr |
| Dec 1, 4:15 AM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 24 hr |
| Dec 5, 1:03 AM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 10 hr |
| Dec 5, 8:05 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 8 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:21 AM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 11 hr |
| Dec 7, 2:20 PM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 21 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:05 AM MST | Dense Fog Advisory | BOI | 11 hr |
| Dec 19, 3:13 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 36 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:29 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 42 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:46 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOI | 45 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 4 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 1 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 14 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 4 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 17 |
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.