Alert archive / Iowa / Shelby County

Weather alerts in Shelby County, Iowa, 2012

108 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Shelby County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
108
Warnings
19
Watches
19
Advisories
25
Busiest month
May23 alerts
Busiest day
May 20, 20125 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Shelby County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings4175%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Omaha, NE: tornado warnings19574%1921%19 min
NWS Omaha, NE: severe thunderstorm warnings22512445%23081%16 min
NWS Omaha, NE: flash flood warnings14750%1479%36 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, 3:55 AM CSTWind AdvisoryOAX14 hr
Jan 10, 3:25 PM CSTWind AdvisoryOAX30 hr
Feb 1, 9:58 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAX41 hr
Feb 3, 3:21 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAX32 hr
Feb 5, 7:21 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX17 hr
Feb 10, 3:24 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryOAX17 hr
Feb 12, 3:27 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOAX36 hr
Feb 13, 10:00 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX12 hr
Feb 22, 4:02 PM CSTWind AdvisoryOAX26 hr
Feb 22, 10:02 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOAX26 hr
Feb 28, 3:22 PM CSTWind AdvisoryOAX25 hr
Mar 3, 8:17 PM CSTWind AdvisoryOAX22 hr
Mar 16, 5:24 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX6 hr
Mar 19, 1:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Mar 26, 3:25 AM CDTFire Weather WatchOAX24 hr
Mar 30, 3:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Apr 8, 3:14 PM CDTFreeze WatchOAX24 hr
Apr 9, 4:05 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAX29 hr
Apr 10, 3:56 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAX29 hr
Apr 14, 12:00 PM CDTTornado Watch PDSSPC7 hr
Apr 14, 2:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Apr 14, 9:17 PM CDTWind AdvisoryOAX31 hr
Apr 14, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Apr 14, 11:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Apr 15, 3:25 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Apr 19, 2:23 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Apr 23, 2:07 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAX7 hr
Apr 27, 10:42 AM CDTWind AdvisoryOAX7 hr
Apr 27, 5:12 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX33 min
May 1, 9:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 1, 11:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 2, 2:02 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
May 2, 3:10 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX35 min
May 4, 5:31 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC29 min
May 4, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 6, 4:55 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 19, 3:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 19, 5:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
May 19, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX39 min
May 19, 8:11 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
May 19, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX28 min
May 19, 8:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX31 min
May 19, 10:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 23, 10:26 AM CDTWind AdvisoryOAX8 hr
May 23, 2:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
May 23, 4:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 23, 6:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
May 23, 8:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
May 25, 3:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 25, 9:17 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
May 26, 12:46 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
May 27, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 3, 8:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 10, 3:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jun 10, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 10, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX22 min
Jun 10, 6:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jun 10, 7:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX41 min
Jun 10, 10:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
Jun 14, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 14, 6:07 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jun 14, 7:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX24 min
Jun 20, 3:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 26, 3:23 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryOAX3 days
Jul 3, 3:26 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryOAX17 hr
Jul 4, 3:55 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryOAX65 hr
Jul 4, 3:42 PM CDTExcessive Heat WarningOAX53 hr
Jul 14, 4:19 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX56 min
Jul 14, 4:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 17, 2:56 PM CDTHeat AdvisoryOAX29 hr
Jul 20, 4:18 AM CDTHeat AdvisoryOAX5 days
Jul 20, 3:05 PM CDTExcessive Heat WarningOAX5 days
Jul 25, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 25, 7:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Aug 8, 12:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Aug 8, 4:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Aug 8, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 16, 2:15 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX30 min
Aug 22, 3:09 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAX16 hr
Aug 25, 5:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX66 min
Aug 25, 6:50 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX55 min
Aug 27, 5:28 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX4 hr
Sep 3, 8:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX43 min
Sep 5, 1:14 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Sep 10, 4:10 AM CDTFire Weather WatchOAX11 hr
Sep 10, 3:39 PM CDTRed Flag WarningOAX27 hr
Sep 18, 3:36 PM CDTFire Weather WatchOAX11 hr
Sep 21, 3:28 PM CDTFreeze WatchOAX12 hr
Sep 22, 3:35 AM CDTFreeze WarningOAX29 hr
Oct 2, 3:30 PM CDTFire Weather WatchOAX12 hr
Oct 3, 3:49 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAX15 hr
Oct 4, 3:28 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAX18 hr
Oct 5, 3:40 PM CDTFreeze WarningOAX18 hr
Oct 8, 3:33 AM CDTRed Flag WarningOAX14 hr
Oct 16, 3:38 PM CDTWind AdvisoryOAX27 hr
Oct 17, 3:28 PM CDTWind AdvisoryOAX37 hr
Oct 22, 1:08 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Oct 23, 9:25 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX10 hr
Oct 24, 11:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Oct 25, 1:55 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementOAX35 min
Nov 10, 7:56 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Dec 1, 3:30 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX9 hr
Dec 1, 7:39 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryOAX13 hr
Dec 17, 3:31 PM CSTWinter Storm WatchOAX24 hr
Dec 18, 3:57 PM CSTWinter Storm WarningOAX37 hr
Dec 19, 11:31 AM CSTBlizzard WarningOAX24 hr
Dec 19, 2:08 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Dec 19, 9:32 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 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.