Alert archive / Louisiana

Weather alerts in Webster Parish, Louisiana

4,095 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Webster Parish and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
4,095
Warnings
1,490
Watches
624
Advisories
873
Busiest year
2023241 alerts
Average year
100over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 79% of tornado reports in Webster Parish fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 17 minutes before, and 63% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087357%367%20 min
200910370%367%9 min
201010100%0
20115260%3100%19 min
2014110%0
20156183%0
20163167%0
20177271%1100%22 min
20186267%1100%12 min
20196267%580%17 min
20207357%4100%18 min
20214175%10%
20227357%0
20235260%1100%0 min
20247443%771%21 min
20254250%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008261638%1663%19 min
2009332524%1377%21 min
2010261350%683%32 min
2011322038%1283%20 min
2012231917%1283%27 min
2013211624%771%38 min
2014292031%888%33 min
2015171229%7100%14 min
201613654%580%32 min
2017271544%1267%24 min
2018171229%8100%20 min
2019281643%1242%5 min
2020221723%2295%20 min
2021191332%1060%27 min
2022211624%2085%20 min
2023443325%2396%30 min
2024321844%2100%24 min
2025503236%1894%20 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009151313%16100%61 min
2012220%1100%130 min
2015550%250%94 min
2016251924%14100%221 min
20172150%0
20184325%0
2019440%0
20205340%367%22 min
2022110%1100%82 min
2023550%0
202410910%2100%24 min
202510730%1100%57 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 6, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV63 min
Sep 6, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV58 min
Sep 5, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV54 min
Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 22, 12:09 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 13, 4:20 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSHV3 hr
Jul 6, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV76 min
Jul 6, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV65 min
Jun 29, 10:06 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHV7 days
Jun 26, 8:56 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHV3 days
Jun 26, 8:54 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningSHV5 days
Jun 24, 5:10 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV6 hr

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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.