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
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 14 | 11 | 21% | 12 | 75% | 27 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 31 min |
Each office's whole area, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Northern Indiana: tornado warnings | 5 | 1 | 80% | 1 | 100% | 2 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: severe thunderstorm warnings | 126 | 87 | 31% | 272 | 82% | 22 min |
| NWS Northern Indiana: flash flood warnings | 8 | 2 | 75% | 2 | 100% | 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2, 6:24 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jan 23, 1:59 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 31 min |
| Jan 23, 10:23 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 48 hr |
| Jan 27, 9:13 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 14 hr |
| Mar 2, 12:03 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 22 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 44 min |
| Mar 12, 12:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Mar 12, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 19, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 3:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 51 min |
| Mar 19, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 30 min |
| Mar 19, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 29 min |
| Mar 19, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 25 min |
| Apr 15, 8:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 21 min |
| Apr 15, 9:48 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 27 min |
| Jun 16, 11:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jun 29, 11:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 29, 1:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 30 min |
| Jun 29, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 49 min |
| Jul 5, 5:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Jul 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 19 min |
| Jul 14, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 25 min |
| Jul 14, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 31 min |
| Jul 14, 6:01 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 17, 8:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 61 min |
| Jul 18, 11:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 11:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 62 min |
| Jul 19, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 64 min |
| Jul 19, 12:29 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:03 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 57 min |
| Jul 19, 1:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 4:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 41 min |
| Jul 19, 5:19 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 19, 6:22 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 35 min |
| Jul 24, 7:35 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jul 24, 8:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 8:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 4:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jul 26, 2:40 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jul 26, 4:07 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 53 min |
| Jul 26, 5:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 55 min |
| Jul 26, 8:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 47 min |
| Jul 26, 9:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 43 min |
| Aug 4, 4:57 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Aug 4, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 70 min |
| Aug 4, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 52 min |
| Aug 4, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 49 min |
| Aug 4, 6:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | IWX | 42 min |
| Aug 16, 9:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 60 min |
| Aug 20, 12:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 52 min |
| Aug 20, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 26 min |
| Aug 26, 4:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 56 min |
| Oct 14, 3:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 14, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 41 min |
| Oct 25, 8:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 115 min |
| Dec 20, 3:05 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 55 min |
| Dec 26, 3:29 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 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 | 14 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 13 |
| Special Weather Statement | 23 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| River Flood Warning | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
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.