Alert archive / Iowa / Decatur County

Weather alerts in Decatur County, Iowa, 2016

88 weather alerts in 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Decatur County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
88
Warnings
8
Watches
22
Advisories
29
Busiest month
July20 alerts
Busiest day
July 19, 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.

Decatur County, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings4250%0
Flash flood warnings110%0

Each office's whole area, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Des Moines, IA: tornado warnings191142%2365%16 min
NWS Des Moines, IA: severe thunderstorm warnings1627951%24665%21 min
NWS Des Moines, IA: flash flood warnings392828%6484%135 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 7, 6:46 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX5 hr
Jan 8, 4:45 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX14 hr
Jan 8, 9:45 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX6 hr
Jan 9, 3:55 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX32 hr
Jan 16, 3:46 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX41 hr
Jan 17, 12:06 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX21 hr
Jan 18, 3:43 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX29 hr
Feb 2, 5:40 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX9 hr
Feb 7, 11:18 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX34 hr
Feb 18, 3:48 PM CSTWind AdvisoryDMX26 hr
Mar 13, 10:15 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX14 hr
Mar 15, 3:05 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX28 hr
Mar 23, 1:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 23, 3:03 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Mar 23, 7:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 7, 3:21 PM CDTFreeze WatchDMX12 hr
Apr 8, 3:34 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMX29 hr
Apr 11, 9:42 AM CDTFreeze WarningDMX23 hr
Apr 26, 8:58 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX3 hr
Apr 27, 1:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 27, 2:33 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 27, 5:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Apr 27, 6:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX28 min
May 11, 3:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 11, 5:34 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC101 min
May 13, 12:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
May 13, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 18, 6:26 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX3 hr
May 25, 4:08 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX52 min
May 26, 12:17 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX58 min
May 26, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
May 27, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
May 27, 7:53 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX8 hr
Jun 1, 3:42 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX3 hr
Jun 14, 7:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jun 20, 3:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jun 20, 4:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 20, 6:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 20, 9:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jun 22, 3:28 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryDMX16 hr
Jun 25, 9:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 30, 1:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 2, 3:16 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX18 hr
Jul 4, 3:36 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryDMX28 hr
Jul 7, 1:22 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jul 7, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 7, 4:27 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Jul 7, 5:26 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 13, 10:33 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Jul 13, 11:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 17, 9:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX46 min
Jul 17, 11:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 18, 1:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX7 hr
Jul 18, 3:43 PM CDTExcessive Heat WatchDMX36 hr
Jul 19, 3:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX24 hr
Jul 19, 12:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 19, 1:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX42 min
Jul 19, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX49 min
Jul 19, 2:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 19, 2:59 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDMX6 hr
Jul 19, 4:24 PM CDTExcessive Heat WatchDMX12 hr
Jul 19, 4:24 PM CDTExcessive Heat WarningDMX4 days
Aug 2, 3:44 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX8 hr
Aug 3, 2:58 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX5 hr
Aug 4, 1:28 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryDMX6 hr
Aug 11, 3:46 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX27 hr
Aug 11, 3:58 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryDMX16 hr
Aug 11, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 11, 9:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Aug 24, 12:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX41 min
Aug 24, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX46 min
Aug 24, 3:51 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX24 hr
Sep 7, 2:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 15, 3:35 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchDMX13 hr
Sep 19, 5:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Oct 6, 1:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Oct 6, 2:12 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Oct 6, 7:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Oct 12, 3:53 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryDMX29 hr
Oct 15, 3:24 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX20 hr
Oct 20, 3:22 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDMX17 hr
Nov 1, 11:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Nov 17, 3:42 PM CSTWind AdvisoryDMX38 hr
Dec 5, 3:53 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX5 hr
Dec 15, 11:43 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX57 hr
Dec 16, 4:33 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX55 hr
Dec 24, 1:50 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX26 hr
Dec 29, 3:40 AM CSTWind AdvisoryDMX13 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.