Alert archive / Indiana / DeKalb County
Weather alerts in DeKalb County, Indiana, 2024
77 weather alerts in 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
DeKalb County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 77
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 25
- Busiest month
- January15 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 17, 20247 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
DeKalb County, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 9 | 5 | 44% | 7 | 100% | 20 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Northern Indiana: tornado warnings | 36 | 14 | 61% | 47 | 81% | 16 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: severe thunderstorm warnings | 121 | 68 | 44% | 440 | 50% | 17 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 3 | 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 3:56 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 30 hr |
| Jan 11, 2:28 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 53 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:23 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | IWX | 56 hr |
| Jan 13, 7:10 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 4 days |
| Jan 14, 8:59 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | IWX | 4 hr |
| Jan 14, 8:59 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | IWX | 27 hr |
| Jan 14, 9:00 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | IWX | 15 hr |
| Jan 15, 11:56 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | IWX | 47 hr |
| Jan 18, 5:03 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 31 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:03 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 44 hr |
| Jan 22, 10:17 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:13 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 56 hr |
| Jan 26, 2:00 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 23 hr |
| Jan 26, 5:21 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 8 days |
| Jan 30, 9:32 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 9 hr |
| Feb 27, 9:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 41 min |
| Mar 14, 4:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Mar 26, 2:08 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Mar 26, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 37 min |
| Apr 2, 10:40 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 21 days |
| Apr 9, 3:03 PM EDT | Flood Watch | IWX | 63 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:30 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | IWX | 30 hr |
| Apr 17, 11:50 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Apr 17, 12:18 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 44 min |
| Apr 17, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 24 min |
| Apr 17, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 47 min |
| Apr 17, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 32 min |
| Apr 17, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 28 min |
| Apr 21, 2:50 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | IWX | 17 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:31 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | IWX | 23 hr |
| Apr 24, 2:28 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | IWX | 19 hr |
| Apr 25, 3:14 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | IWX | 18 hr |
| May 2, 11:40 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| May 7, 4:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| May 7, 4:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 7, 6:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| May 7, 6:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 27 min |
| May 7, 7:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 24 min |
| May 18, 4:58 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 5 hr |
| May 26, 12:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| May 26, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 44 min |
| Jun 5, 11:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 2:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jun 13, 2:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 16, 3:47 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | IWX | 25 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:24 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | IWX | 6 days |
| Jun 18, 4:56 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 49 min |
| Jun 19, 1:47 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jun 23, 2:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 51 min |
| Jun 25, 5:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jun 25, 6:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 25, 7:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Jun 25, 9:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 23 min |
| Jul 3, 9:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 19 min |
| Jul 10, 10:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 4 hr |
| Jul 11, 6:07 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 10:08 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 1:54 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 16, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 40 min |
| Jul 16, 1:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 1:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 7:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Aug 25, 3:05 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Watch | IWX | 23 hr |
| Aug 26, 2:29 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | IWX | 32 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Sep 18, 5:35 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Sep 20, 11:27 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 11 hr |
| Sep 24, 2:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 15, 3:15 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | IWX | 30 hr |
| Oct 16, 12:23 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | IWX | 21 hr |
| Dec 4, 3:06 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | IWX | 46 hr |
| Dec 15, 9:09 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | IWX | 7 hr |
| Dec 29, 2:35 AM EST | Wind Advisory | IWX | 20 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 | 9 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 19 |
| Special Weather Statement | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 6 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 2 |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Wind Chill Warning | 2 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 8 |
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.