Alert archive / Indiana / Saint Joseph County
Weather alerts in Saint Joseph County, Indiana, 2016
81 weather alerts in 2016, 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 81
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 6
- Busiest month
- July24 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 16, 20168 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning.
Saint Joseph County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 2 | 0% | |||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 5 | 3 | 40% | 23 | 30% | 26 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 3 | 2 | 33% | 3 | 100% | 51 min |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10, 2:20 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 25 min |
| Feb 10, 5:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 58 min |
| Feb 10, 8:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 43 min |
| Feb 10, 8:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 54 min |
| Feb 24, 7:34 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Mar 15, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Mar 15, 11:58 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Mar 16, 12:13 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 32 min |
| Mar 16, 10:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 62 min |
| Mar 31, 1:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Mar 31, 3:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 36 min |
| Apr 6, 5:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 33 min |
| Apr 6, 6:26 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 34 min |
| Apr 7, 6:40 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 7 days |
| Apr 9, 6:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 48 min |
| Apr 9, 10:00 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 30 min |
| Apr 21, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 29 min |
| Apr 26, 12:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 61 min |
| May 11, 3:28 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 3 days |
| May 31, 6:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 31 min |
| Jun 15, 4:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 24 min |
| Jun 20, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 37 min |
| Jun 20, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 60 min |
| Jun 20, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 44 min |
| Jun 22, 4:38 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 22, 9:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 10:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 40 min |
| Jun 22, 10:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jun 22, 11:58 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 3:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jun 26, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 33 min |
| Jun 26, 4:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:23 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 52 min |
| Jul 6, 6:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 6:04 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jul 8, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 28 min |
| Jul 12, 4:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jul 13, 6:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 63 min |
| Jul 13, 6:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | IWX | 43 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 17, 10:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 18, 12:25 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jul 18, 1:51 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jul 21, 2:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 24 min |
| Jul 21, 2:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 52 min |
| Jul 21, 2:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 51 min |
| Jul 23, 6:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 28 min |
| Jul 23, 7:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 33 min |
| Jul 23, 7:28 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 23, 9:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 58 min |
| Jul 24, 1:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 60 min |
| Jul 24, 3:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Jul 24, 9:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 11:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 4 hr |
| Aug 15, 7:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 55 min |
| Aug 15, 9:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 11:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 12:44 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 9 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:00 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 36 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:00 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 63 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:10 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 17 days |
| Aug 16, 4:11 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 12 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 24 hr |
| Aug 17, 4:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 46 min |
| Aug 17, 8:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 45 min |
| Aug 18, 10:44 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 7:49 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | IWX | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 3:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 2 hr |
| Sep 9, 10:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | IWX | 3 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:06 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 3 hr |
| Sep 10, 12:09 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | IWX | 6 hr |
| Sep 10, 3:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 4 days |
| Nov 2, 9:53 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | IWX | 4 hr |
| Nov 3, 4:55 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | IWX | 45 hr |
| Dec 11, 6:42 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Dec 26, 9:22 PM EST | River Flood Warning | IWX | 58 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.