Alert archive / Michigan / Dickinson County
Weather alerts in Dickinson County, Michigan, 2018
94 weather alerts in 2018, 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 94
- Warnings
- 16
- Watches
- 13
- Advisories
- 27
- Busiest month
- May14 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 26, 201811 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, 2018
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 3 | 63% | 10 | 60% | 26 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2018
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Marquette, MI: tornado warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Marquette, MI: severe thunderstorm warnings | 65 | 23 | 65% | 75 | 69% | 22 min |
| NWS Marquette, MI: flash flood warnings | 10 | 5 | 50% | 31 | 87% | 218 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 7, 11:34 AM CST | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 36 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:28 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 61 hr |
| Jan 20, 2:10 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 24 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:35 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 34 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:15 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 2, 2:14 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 34 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:20 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 52 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:31 AM CST | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 74 min |
| Feb 22, 2:32 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 31 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:19 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 26 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:21 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 22 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:37 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 39 hr |
| Mar 31, 5:25 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 2, 2:48 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 34 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:06 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 12 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:27 AM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | MQT | 25 hr |
| Apr 14, 4:06 AM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | MQT | 47 hr |
| Apr 15, 8:49 PM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 34 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 36 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:15 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 36 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:24 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 36 hr |
| Apr 27, 8:24 AM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 36 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:06 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 39 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:06 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 4 days |
| Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 4 days |
| Apr 28, 9:12 PM CDT | River Flood Advisory | GRB | 4 days |
| May 25, 1:27 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 33 min |
| May 25, 12:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 38 min |
| May 25, 6:49 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 26 min |
| May 25, 7:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 34 min |
| May 25, 7:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 41 min |
| May 25, 8:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 40 min |
| May 26, 11:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| May 26, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 62 min |
| May 26, 1:31 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 44 min |
| May 26, 1:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MQT | 3 hr |
| May 26, 2:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 43 min |
| May 26, 4:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 20 min |
| May 26, 4:21 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 39 min |
| May 26, 5:11 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | 3 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MQT | 13 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 15, 12:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 71 min |
| Jun 15, 12:53 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MQT | 61 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:38 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:28 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MQT | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 3:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jun 17, 3:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:29 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 29, 11:22 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jun 30, 2:16 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | MQT | 17 hr |
| Jun 30, 3:21 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 30, 4:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jun 30, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 8:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 30, 8:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 27 min |
| Jun 30, 9:22 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MQT | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 11:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jul 1, 12:04 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jul 1, 2:05 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 40 min |
| Jul 4, 3:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 48 min |
| Jul 4, 4:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 60 min |
| Aug 1, 12:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 52 min |
| Aug 1, 12:26 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 34 min |
| Aug 1, 12:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 49 min |
| Aug 1, 1:06 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 39 min |
| Aug 1, 1:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 28 min |
| Aug 4, 5:53 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 37 min |
| Aug 5, 3:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Aug 14, 3:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 35 min |
| Aug 14, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | GRB | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 3:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 33 min |
| Aug 14, 7:11 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 5:27 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Sep 4, 8:24 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | MQT | 26 hr |
| Sep 4, 11:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | 9 hr |
| Sep 5, 2:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | MQT | 7 hr |
| Sep 5, 8:48 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | 3 hr |
| Sep 5, 11:55 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | 4 hr |
| Sep 21, 2:20 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | 18 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:04 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | MQT | 31 hr |
| Sep 28, 2:04 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | MQT | 31 hr |
| Sep 28, 4:10 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 65 min |
| Oct 3, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Oct 3, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Oct 3, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 28 min |
| Oct 3, 6:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | MQT | 22 min |
| Oct 3, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MQT | 32 min |
| Oct 8, 3:20 PM CDT | Flood Watch | MQT | 52 hr |
| Oct 10, 3:25 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | MQT | 4 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:27 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | MQT | 6 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:42 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | MQT | 56 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 | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 15 |
| Special Weather Statement | 23 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
| River Flood Advisory | 9 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 4 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 8 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Fire | |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
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.