Alert archive / Michigan / Dickinson County
Weather alerts in Dickinson County, Michigan, 2008
73 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Dickinson County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 73
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 13
- Advisories
- 26
- Busiest month
- January14 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 29, 20084 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Dickinson County, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 3 | 63% | 2 | 100% | 13 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2008
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Marquette, MI: tornado warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS Marquette, MI: severe thunderstorm warnings | 54 | 19 | 65% | 33 | 79% | 23 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 5:56 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 21 hr |
| Jan 8, 3:18 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 8 hr |
| Jan 13, 3:50 AM CST | Snow Advisory | MQT | 26 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:11 PM CST | Heavy Snow Warning | MQT | 37 hr |
| Jan 16, 3:11 PM CST | Snow Advisory | MQT | 48 hr |
| Jan 18, 4:29 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | 56 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:20 PM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | 12 hr |
| Jan 29, 4:43 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 34 hr |
| Jan 29, 4:43 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 31 hr |
| Jan 29, 10:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:51 PM CST | Wind Chill Warning | MQT | 22 hr |
| Jan 29, 6:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jan 30, 10:13 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | 5 hr |
| Jan 30, 3:09 PM CST | Wind Chill Warning | MQT | 12 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:48 PM CST | Snow Advisory | MQT | 30 hr |
| Feb 4, 11:34 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 8, 3:49 AM CST | Wind Chill Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Warning | MQT | 54 hr |
| Feb 9, 3:48 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | 54 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:36 AM CST | Wind Advisory | MQT | 11 hr |
| Feb 10, 4:15 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | 30 hr |
| Feb 10, 10:27 AM CST | Blowing Snow Advisory | MQT | 8 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:26 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:52 PM CST | Heavy Snow Warning | MQT | 19 hr |
| Feb 15, 2:48 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:16 PM CST | Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory | MQT | 30 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:16 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 48 hr |
| Mar 12, 7:07 PM CDT | Snow Advisory | MQT | 14 hr |
| Mar 29, 3:19 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:41 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 47 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:47 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 26 hr |
| Apr 8, 5:17 AM CDT | Heavy Snow Warning | MQT | 28 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:24 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 13 hr |
| Apr 10, 4:18 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 54 hr |
| May 18, 2:54 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | 27 hr |
| May 25, 2:51 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| May 25, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 49 min |
| May 25, 5:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 44 min |
| May 25, 6:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 52 min |
| May 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | MQT | 25 hr |
| May 26, 2:26 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | MQT | 16 hr |
| May 27, 3:01 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | MQT | 16 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:19 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | MQT | 16 hr |
| Jun 6, 12:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jun 20, 2:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jun 27, 4:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 58 min |
| Jun 28, 10:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 7, 7:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 67 min |
| Jul 17, 12:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 25, 11:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 25, 1:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jul 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 29, 3:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 29, 7:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| Aug 1, 12:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Aug 1, 12:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 1, 1:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 3:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Aug 6, 1:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Aug 16, 6:16 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 63 min |
| Sep 9, 2:40 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | 16 hr |
| Sep 17, 3:52 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | 27 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:42 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | 28 hr |
| Nov 3, 3:03 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 7 hr |
| Nov 3, 5:41 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 12 hr |
| Dec 14, 5:54 AM CST | Wind Chill Advisory | MQT | 53 hr |
| Dec 20, 4:47 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 49 hr |
| Dec 25, 3:58 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 28 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:31 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| Dec 27, 3:16 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 18 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
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.