Alert archive / Michigan / Alpena County
Weather alerts in Alpena County, Michigan, 2016
64 weather alerts in 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Alpena County and its neighbors
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- Alerts
- 64
- Warnings
- 12
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 24
- Busiest month
- February11 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 8, 20166 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Alpena County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 3 | 2 | 33% | 7 | 100% | 50 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Gaylord, MI: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Gaylord, MI: severe thunderstorm warnings | 54 | 26 | 52% | 76 | 80% | 26 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 4:26 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | APX | 12 hr |
| Jan 9, 4:24 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | APX | 36 hr |
| Jan 9, 8:03 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 27, 11:19 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 12 hr |
| Feb 1, 4:14 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 33 hr |
| Feb 2, 7:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 9, 2:59 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 55 hr |
| Feb 12, 9:16 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | APX | 27 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:17 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | APX | 15 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:36 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 16 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:13 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | APX | 42 hr |
| Feb 29, 3:54 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 13 hr |
| Feb 29, 8:23 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | APX | 22 min |
| Feb 29, 10:52 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | APX | 23 min |
| Feb 29, 1:32 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | APX | 28 min |
| Mar 1, 2:40 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 22 hr |
| Mar 21, 4:18 PM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | APX | 20 hr |
| Mar 22, 12:32 PM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | APX | 60 hr |
| Mar 23, 10:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 3:59 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 31 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:26 PM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | APX | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:41 AM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 48 hr |
| Apr 9, 4:12 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 20 hr |
| May 9, 3:47 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | APX | 16 hr |
| May 12, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | 64 min |
| May 13, 3:23 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | APX | 24 hr |
| May 14, 3:10 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | APX | 29 hr |
| May 15, 3:25 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | APX | 12 hr |
| May 16, 4:05 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | APX | 16 hr |
| May 17, 3:46 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | APX | 16 hr |
| May 18, 3:34 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | APX | 16 hr |
| May 21, 4:15 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | APX | 64 hr |
| May 24, 8:42 AM EDT | Red Flag Warning | APX | 11 hr |
| May 26, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | 62 min |
| Jun 20, 10:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 10:19 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jul 8, 10:48 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | APX | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:46 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Jul 21, 9:28 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 21, 9:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 21, 12:19 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Aug 16, 10:31 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | APX | 5 hr |
| Aug 20, 3:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Sep 6, 5:32 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | 88 min |
| Sep 10, 4:02 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | APX | 30 hr |
| Sep 10, 3:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | 25 min |
| Sep 19, 3:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Oct 5, 11:23 PM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | APX | 12 hr |
| Oct 17, 9:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | APX | 55 min |
| Nov 15, 6:03 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | APX | 6 hr |
| Nov 17, 7:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | APX | 117 min |
| Nov 18, 3:23 PM EST | Wind Advisory | APX | 32 hr |
| Nov 19, 4:45 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 24 hr |
| Dec 7, 3:50 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 3 days |
| Dec 10, 3:40 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 36 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:21 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 53 hr |
| Dec 15, 4:53 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 66 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:11 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | APX | 37 hr |
| Dec 25, 4:24 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 31 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:57 PM EST | Wind Advisory | APX | 9 hr |
| Dec 30, 3:42 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | APX | 18 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 9 |
| Special Weather Statement | 9 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 4 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 16 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 4 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Beach Hazards Statement | 2 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.