Alert archive / Michigan

Weather alerts in Shiawassee County, Michigan

2,220 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Shiawassee County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,220
Warnings
487
Watches
392
Advisories
536
Busiest year
2008119 alerts
Average year
56over 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, 93% of tornado reports in Shiawassee County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 17 minutes before, and 54% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
201020100%0
2011110%1100%3 min
2013110%5100%26 min
201510100%0
2019220%786%14 min
202110100%0
2023110%1100%1 min
20252150%1100%16 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200812650%2100%28 min
20094175%10%
20106433%3100%37 min
201111827%450%44 min
20129722%3100%22 min
20133233%743%13 min
20149722%580%28 min
20154250%2100%15 min
2016330%1100%7 min
20173167%10%
20185180%10%
201910550%540%11 min
20208713%6100%15 min
2021171135%9100%35 min
20226517%5100%26 min
20239456%560%34 min
20243167%2100%31 min
20257529%6100%25 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009110%1100%165 min
20114250%0
201210100%0
201410100%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
Sep 3, 2:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX64 min
Sep 3, 10:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX66 min
Jul 15, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX28 min
Jul 3, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDTX46 min
Jun 29, 1:57 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningDTX4 days
Jun 11, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX53 min
Jun 10, 8:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX63 min
Jun 9, 12:34 PM EDTTornado WarningDTX41 min
Jun 9, 11:50 AM EDTTornado WarningDTX40 min
May 18, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDTX63 min
May 4, 2:45 PM EDTRed Flag WarningDTX4 hr
May 1, 12:58 PM EDTFreeze WarningDTX18 hr

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.