Alert archive / Maine

Weather alerts in Sagadahoc County, Maine

2,297 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Sagadahoc County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,297
Warnings
445
Watches
365
Advisories
817
Busiest year
2020147 alerts
Average year
59over 39 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, 0% of tornado reports in Sagadahoc County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
2012010%

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083233%0
20096267%0
201011918%475%12 min
201111109%580%15 min
20128625%5100%25 min
2013141214%1100%17 min
2014770%0
201511827%1100%34 min
201610100%475%31 min
2017220%0
2018550%978%5 min
20194250%1100%7 min
20207614%0
20216267%5100%8 min
20225420%1100%42 min
2023220%0
20245260%0
202510100%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2014440%1100%62 min
2016110%0
2019110%0
202130100%0
2023330%1100%120 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
Aug 13, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX51 min
Aug 13, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX44 min
Jul 16, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX56 min
Jun 30, 1:57 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningGYX3 days
Feb 22, 1:37 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningGYX44 hr
Feb 22, 1:37 AM ESTBlizzard WarningGYX44 hr
Jan 24, 12:39 PM ESTWinter Storm WarningGYX60 hr

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.