Alert archive / Indiana / Saint Joseph County

Weather alerts in Saint Joseph County, Indiana, 2012

64 weather alerts in 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
64
Warnings
20
Watches
5
Advisories
3
Busiest month
July28 alerts
Busiest day
July 19, 20129 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 1 tornado warnings covering Saint Joseph County in 2012 had a tornado report inside them.

Saint Joseph County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings110%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings141121%1275%27 min
Flash flood warnings2150%1100%31 min

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Northern Indiana: tornado warnings5180%1100%2 min
NWS Northern Indiana: severe thunderstorm warnings1268731%27282%22 min
NWS Northern Indiana: flash flood warnings8275%2100%87 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 2, 6:24 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jan 23, 1:59 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementIWX31 min
Jan 23, 10:23 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWX48 hr
Jan 27, 9:13 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWX14 hr
Mar 2, 12:03 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningIWX22 hr
Mar 2, 4:31 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementIWX44 min
Mar 12, 12:03 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Mar 12, 4:22 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Mar 15, 6:02 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 19, 2:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX26 min
Mar 19, 3:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX51 min
Mar 19, 4:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX30 min
Mar 19, 5:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX29 min
Mar 19, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX25 min
Apr 15, 8:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX21 min
Apr 15, 9:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX27 min
Jun 16, 11:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jun 29, 11:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 29, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX30 min
Jun 29, 1:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX39 min
Jul 1, 1:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 1, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX37 min
Jul 1, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX49 min
Jul 5, 5:58 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 14, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX19 min
Jul 14, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX25 min
Jul 14, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX31 min
Jul 14, 6:01 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWX3 hr
Jul 17, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX61 min
Jul 18, 11:30 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jul 18, 11:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX62 min
Jul 19, 12:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX64 min
Jul 19, 12:29 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWX3 hr
Jul 19, 1:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX57 min
Jul 19, 1:12 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWX3 hr
Jul 19, 4:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX41 min
Jul 19, 5:19 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryIWX3 hr
Jul 19, 6:22 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningIWX3 hr
Jul 24, 7:25 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX35 min
Jul 24, 7:35 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 24, 8:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC3 hr
Jul 24, 8:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX50 min
Jul 25, 4:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Jul 26, 2:40 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jul 26, 4:07 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX53 min
Jul 26, 5:05 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX55 min
Jul 26, 8:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX47 min
Jul 26, 9:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX43 min
Aug 4, 4:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Aug 4, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX70 min
Aug 4, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 4, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX52 min
Aug 4, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX49 min
Aug 4, 6:18 PM EDTTornado WarningIWX42 min
Aug 16, 9:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX60 min
Aug 20, 12:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX52 min
Aug 20, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX26 min
Aug 26, 4:49 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX56 min
Oct 14, 3:11 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Oct 14, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIWX41 min
Oct 25, 8:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementIWX115 min
Dec 20, 3:05 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementIWX55 min
Dec 26, 3:29 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 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.

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.