Alert archive / Indiana / Blackford County
Weather alerts in Blackford County, Indiana, 2016
64 weather alerts in 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Blackford County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 64
- Warnings
- 5
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 16
- Busiest month
- June14 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 13, 20165 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
2 of 2 tornado warnings covering Blackford County in 2016 had a tornado report inside them.
Blackford County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 2 | 2 | 0% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 3 | 1 | 67% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Northern Indiana: tornado warnings | 33 | 17 | 48% | 45 | 76% | 18 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: severe thunderstorm warnings | 61 | 38 | 38% | 197 | 54% | 18 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: flash flood warnings | 9 | 5 | 44% | 11 | 82% | 70 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11, 2:52 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 28 hr |
| Jan 17, 3:49 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | IWX | 32 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:02 PM EST | Wind Advisory | IWX | 33 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:11 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 45 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:05 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IWX | 17 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:18 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | IWX | 29 hr |
| Mar 24, 1:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Mar 27, 3:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 27, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 35 min |
| Apr 1, 3:04 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | IWX | 32 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:16 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | IWX | 17 hr |
| May 1, 6:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| May 1, 9:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| May 1, 10:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 35 min |
| May 14, 4:02 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 58 min |
| May 14, 2:10 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | IWX | 18 hr |
| May 15, 11:51 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | IWX | 20 hr |
| Jun 6, 11:41 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Jun 6, 3:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 3:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 15, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 20, 2:54 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 20, 6:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 44 min |
| Jun 20, 7:05 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 22, 9:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 22, 10:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 12:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jun 23, 1:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 34 min |
| Jun 26, 3:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jun 26, 7:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 3:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jul 13, 4:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 39 min |
| Jul 13, 5:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 47 min |
| Jul 13, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 13, 9:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 20, 3:18 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | IWX | 3 days |
| Jul 21, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 26 min |
| Jul 21, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 46 min |
| Jul 24, 4:05 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | IWX | 16 hr |
| Jul 29, 12:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Aug 4, 6:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 4:03 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 57 min |
| Aug 20, 4:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 42 min |
| Aug 20, 5:31 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Aug 24, 3:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Aug 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | 30 min |
| Aug 24, 4:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | 31 min |
| Aug 24, 8:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Aug 25, 6:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 27 min |
| Aug 28, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 30 min |
| Aug 30, 7:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 40 min |
| Sep 9, 9:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Sep 9, 11:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Sep 10, 9:06 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 39 min |
| Sep 16, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 41 min |
| Sep 28, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 58 min |
| Nov 18, 6:31 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Dec 10, 4:16 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 47 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:03 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | IWX | 33 hr |
| Dec 15, 3:54 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 69 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 3 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 21 |
| Special Weather Statement | 15 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
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.