Alert archive / Michigan

Weather alerts in Muskegon County, Michigan

2,472 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Muskegon County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,472
Warnings
485
Watches
328
Advisories
815
Busiest year
2008169 alerts
Average year
60over 41 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 Muskegon 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
200810100%0
201310100%10%
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008131023%1191%34 min
2009330%1100%29 min
201010550%2100%16 min
20119811%1681%27 min
20125260%450%25 min
20135420%1250%27 min
20149367%875%16 min
20154325%683%31 min
20163233%5100%17 min
2017110%2100%3 min
20187529%1080%24 min
20197443%560%18 min
202011736%10100%38 min
20215340%683%28 min
20225340%367%35 min
202310100%20%
20245260%16100%36 min
20254250%4100%32 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
201110100%10%
2014110%0

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 18, 8:12 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGRR6 hr
Jul 27, 1:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRR36 min
Jun 28, 1:26 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningGRR4 days
Jun 11, 8:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGRR94 min
Jun 10, 5:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRR56 min
May 16, 4:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGRR24 min
May 1, 12:01 PM EDTFreeze WarningGRR21 hr
Apr 19, 1:45 AM EDTFreeze WarningGRR32 hr
Apr 15, 11:52 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGRR11 hr
Apr 15, 11:29 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningGRR11 hr
Apr 15, 4:50 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningGRR5 days
Apr 14, 10:01 PM EDTTornado WarningGRR29 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.