Alert archive / Indiana / Saint Joseph County
Weather alerts in Saint Joseph County, Indiana, 2009
71 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Saint Joseph County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 71
- Warnings
- 31
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 5
- Busiest month
- June25 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 19, 200916 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Saint Joseph County, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 4 | 50% | 3 | 100% | 28 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Northern Indiana: tornado warnings | 12 | 3 | 75% | 7 | 100% | 22 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: severe thunderstorm warnings | 59 | 25 | 58% | 90 | 77% | 26 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: flash flood warnings | 15 | 3 | 80% | 7 | 86% | 100 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 14, 5:00 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 8, 5:29 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 78 days |
| Feb 11, 11:10 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 71 hr |
| Feb 11, 11:10 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 35 hr |
| Feb 28, 9:44 AM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 25 hr |
| Mar 8, 7:43 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 6 hr |
| Mar 8, 11:48 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 14 days |
| Mar 8, 11:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 10 days |
| Mar 8, 11:58 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 11 days |
| Mar 9, 12:41 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 5 days |
| Mar 9, 12:41 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 7 days |
| Mar 10, 9:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 21 hr |
| Mar 11, 6:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 12 hr |
| Apr 5, 9:29 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 6 hr |
| Apr 6, 2:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 6, 10:10 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 5 days |
| Apr 7, 10:58 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 24 hr |
| Apr 25, 2:55 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Apr 25, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 25, 7:15 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Apr 27, 10:47 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 9 days |
| May 13, 11:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| May 13, 11:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 14, 12:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 54 min |
| May 14, 7:26 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 10 days |
| May 15, 10:36 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 5:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 51 min |
| Jun 1, 3:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jun 8, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 7:43 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 9:49 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 12:07 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jun 19, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 52 min |
| Jun 19, 3:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 19, 4:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 61 min |
| Jun 19, 6:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 67 min |
| Jun 19, 7:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jun 19, 8:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 34 min |
| Jun 19, 8:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 41 min |
| Jun 19, 8:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 39 min |
| Jun 19, 10:45 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 3 days |
| Jun 19, 11:27 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jun 19, 11:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 2:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jun 19, 6:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jun 19, 6:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 19, 8:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 64 min |
| Jun 19, 9:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jun 25, 1:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Jul 16, 9:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 32 min |
| Jul 28, 3:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 43 min |
| Jul 28, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 51 min |
| Jul 28, 4:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 83 min |
| Jul 28, 5:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 2 hr |
| Aug 9, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Aug 17, 9:29 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 91 min |
| Aug 17, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 46 min |
| Aug 19, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 19, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 51 min |
| Aug 20, 7:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 60 min |
| Aug 21, 11:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 87 min |
| Aug 28, 8:42 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 38 hr |
| Sep 27, 10:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 10:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Sep 27, 11:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 59 min |
| Oct 24, 11:03 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 21 hr |
| Oct 29, 8:38 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 4 days |
| Dec 23, 6:15 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
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.
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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.