Alert archive / Maryland

Weather alerts in Garrett County, Maryland

1,693 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Garrett County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
1,693
Warnings
548
Watches
255
Advisories
99
Busiest year
2026178 alerts
Average year
42over 40 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 Garrett 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
200820100%20%
201010100%0
201310100%0
201520100%0
202310100%0
2024020%

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008151033%786%12 min
20099456%3100%36 min
201012650%8100%30 min
201113746%425%13 min
201214936%1060%23 min
201315147%888%36 min
20148625%7100%11 min
201510730%5100%16 min
201612558%0
2017121017%10100%29 min
20183233%250%5 min
20196350%3100%15 min
202010640%8100%28 min
20219456%863%17 min
2022211719%2483%24 min
202313931%15100%25 min
20249456%8100%29 min
2025161131%2273%16 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201110100%0
2012220%1100%24 min
201410100%0
201510100%0
201720100%0
20185260%2100%43 min
20199544%888%97 min
2021110%10%
2022110%0
202410100%0
2025330%3100%105 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 12, 4:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX3 hr
Sep 4, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
Sep 3, 10:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX42 min
Sep 3, 9:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Sep 3, 8:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX36 min
Aug 16, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX32 min
Aug 16, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX34 min
Aug 16, 4:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Aug 11, 5:35 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningLWX8 hr
Aug 11, 1:21 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningLWX4 hr
Aug 11, 1:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX36 min
Aug 10, 1:49 PM EDTTornado WarningLWX26 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.