Alert archive / Iowa / Sac County

Weather alerts in Sac County, Iowa, 2023

84 weather alerts in 2023, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Sac County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
84
Warnings
20
Watches
17
Advisories
26
Busiest month
April15 alerts
Busiest day
April 20, 20235 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

2 of 4 tornado warnings covering Sac County in 2023 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

Sac County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings4250%10%
Severe thunderstorm warnings8625%7100%12 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Des Moines, IA: tornado warnings371365%2673%15 min
NWS Des Moines, IA: severe thunderstorm warnings19512038%32888%22 min
NWS Des Moines, IA: flash flood warnings5340%475%103 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 1, 3:23 PM CSTIce Storm WarningDMX43 hr
Jan 1, 3:23 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX3 days
Jan 11, 8:16 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX6 hr
Jan 17, 3:07 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMX12 hr
Jan 17, 3:09 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMX45 hr
Jan 22, 12:48 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX11 hr
Jan 22, 6:46 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX14 hr
Jan 27, 3:08 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningDMX42 hr
Jan 27, 3:08 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX45 hr
Jan 28, 2:06 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX21 hr
Jan 29, 2:28 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX20 hr
Jan 30, 1:34 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX20 hr
Feb 2, 3:14 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryDMX30 hr
Feb 21, 2:47 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX57 hr
Mar 7, 3:38 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchDMX35 hr
Mar 8, 3:04 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX33 hr
Mar 15, 3:28 PM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryDMX28 hr
Mar 16, 3:12 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX25 hr
Mar 31, 3:30 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX28 hr
Apr 7, 3:03 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDMX12 hr
Apr 8, 2:41 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMX17 hr
Apr 11, 3:04 PM CDTFire Weather WatchDMX12 hr
Apr 12, 2:57 AM CDTFire Weather WatchDMX11 hr
Apr 12, 2:57 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDMX17 hr
Apr 12, 2:20 PM CDTRed Flag WarningDMX30 hr
Apr 15, 2:47 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX44 hr
Apr 19, 2:45 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Apr 19, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 19, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX48 min
Apr 19, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX49 min
Apr 19, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningDMX42 min
Apr 19, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX28 min
Apr 19, 8:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Apr 30, 2:41 AM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX17 hr
May 6, 1:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 6, 10:41 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX12 hr
May 7, 12:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX45 min
May 8, 3:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 13, 12:01 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
May 13, 12:54 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
May 13, 3:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
May 13, 4:31 PM CDTTornado WarningDMX29 min
May 13, 4:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedDMX16 min
Jun 17, 2:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 17, 3:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 17, 4:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Jun 24, 6:35 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementDMX40 min
Jun 24, 1:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 24, 9:37 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jun 24, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 4, 6:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 10, 2:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 10, 3:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 12, 4:41 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jul 12, 5:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 12, 6:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX38 min
Jul 25, 2:47 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryDMX3 days
Jul 26, 4:26 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 27, 3:19 AM CDTExcessive Heat WarningDMX42 hr
Jul 28, 3:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 28, 4:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 5, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 5, 5:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Aug 5, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningDMX30 min
Aug 5, 7:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 5, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX47 min
Aug 11, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX21 min
Aug 17, 3:07 PM CDTExcessive Heat WatchDMX71 hr
Aug 18, 2:18 PM CDTExcessive Heat WarningDMX7 days
Aug 18, 2:18 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryDMX31 hr
Aug 21, 2:56 PM CDTExcessive Heat WatchDMX24 hr
Sep 23, 9:37 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Sep 23, 12:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX67 min
Sep 23, 1:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Sep 23, 6:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 27, 4:29 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX6 hr
Sep 28, 6:09 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX4 hr
Oct 6, 2:31 AM CDTFrost AdvisoryDMX30 hr
Oct 9, 2:23 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryDMX19 hr
Oct 11, 8:50 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Oct 23, 9:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Oct 30, 3:33 PM CDTWind AdvisoryDMX21 hr
Dec 22, 3:20 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX20 hr
Dec 23, 10:59 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryDMX2 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.