Alert archive / Maine

Weather alerts in Somerset County, Maine

4,319 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Somerset County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,319
Warnings
1,195
Watches
603
Advisories
1,790
Busiest year
2011286 alerts
Average year
114over 38 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, 100% of tornado reports in Somerset County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 12 minutes before, and 80% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20112150%1100%0 min
20132150%1100%23 min
201420100%0
201510100%0
201610100%0
201810100%0
202110100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200827870%978%21 min
200925580%1100%21 min
201014843%1060%16 min
2011534025%2696%22 min
2012151033%1090%11 min
2013462741%4894%22 min
2014151033%1090%30 min
2015262023%2983%19 min
2016191237%23100%27 min
20179367%560%17 min
201815567%475%8 min
20198188%1100%18 min
2020201240%1369%20 min
202111555%771%17 min
202219668%667%20 min
20239456%1050%6 min
202411736%2075%23 min
202514193%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%1100%152 min
20097357%3100%161 min
20114175%0
201240100%10%
201311555%4100%56 min
20143233%5100%24 min
2016220%5100%157 min
20176267%2100%38 min
201820100%0
201920100%0
202010100%0
202313469%475%140 min
202450100%0
20254250%475%20 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 28, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX20 min
Aug 13, 2:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX38 min
Jul 22, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX40 min
Jul 22, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX31 min
Jul 22, 3:33 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedGYX16 min
Jul 22, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX34 min
Jul 16, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX53 min
Jul 14, 12:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGYX54 min
Jun 21, 2:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYX2 hr
Jun 21, 12:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX23 min
Jun 12, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYX31 min
May 5, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAR40 min

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.