Alert archive / Michigan / Tuscola County
Weather alerts in Tuscola County, Michigan, 2013
87 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Tuscola County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 87
- Warnings
- 21
- Watches
- 18
- Advisories
- 30
- Busiest month
- April14 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20136 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Tuscola County, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 11 | 11 | 0% | 11 | 100% | 20 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Detroit, MI: tornado warnings | 7 | 2 | 71% | 15 | 73% | 30 min |
| NWS Detroit, MI: severe thunderstorm warnings | 121 | 87 | 28% | 271 | 79% | 26 min |
| NWS Detroit, MI: flash flood warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
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 19, 3:13 PM EST | Wind Advisory | DTX | 17 hr |
| Jan 21, 3:04 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | DTX | 21 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:33 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | DTX | 12 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:45 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 14 hr |
| Jan 28, 3:04 PM EST | Flood Watch | DTX | 40 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:03 PM EST | Wind Advisory | DTX | 16 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:40 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | DTX | 31 hr |
| Feb 6, 4:06 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | DTX | 44 hr |
| Feb 7, 9:22 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:17 PM EST | Wind Advisory | DTX | 28 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:30 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 23 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:58 AM EST | Wind Advisory | DTX | 10 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:34 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | DTX | 37 hr |
| Feb 25, 3:53 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 42 hr |
| Feb 26, 4:36 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | DTX | 29 hr |
| Apr 8, 2:57 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | DTX | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:53 AM EDT | Flood Watch | DTX | 48 hr |
| Apr 10, 11:21 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | DTX | 4 days |
| Apr 10, 4:10 PM EDT | Freezing Rain Advisory | DTX | 14 hr |
| Apr 16, 3:48 PM EDT | Flood Watch | DTX | 60 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:48 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 27 min |
| Apr 18, 10:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 18, 10:16 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | DTX | 24 hr |
| Apr 18, 10:22 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | DTX | 24 hr |
| Apr 18, 10:48 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | DTX | 68 hr |
| Apr 18, 12:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:13 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | DTX | 18 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:20 PM EDT | Flood Watch | DTX | 15 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:52 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DTX | 4 hr |
| May 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | DTX | 11 hr |
| May 12, 3:38 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | DTX | 28 hr |
| May 20, 12:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| May 20, 12:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 20, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 57 min |
| May 20, 5:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| May 20, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 77 min |
| May 21, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 42 min |
| May 21, 6:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 52 min |
| May 24, 2:55 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | DTX | 17 hr |
| May 25, 3:41 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | DTX | 15 hr |
| May 26, 3:34 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | DTX | 15 hr |
| May 30, 4:17 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| May 30, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 69 min |
| Jun 17, 2:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 17, 3:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 76 min |
| Jun 17, 6:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 2:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 97 min |
| Jun 27, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | DTX | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jul 15, 3:17 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | DTX | 66 hr |
| Jul 18, 9:35 AM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | DTX | 34 hr |
| Jul 19, 11:53 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Jul 19, 2:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 66 min |
| Jul 19, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 19, 5:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jul 19, 9:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Aug 2, 2:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Aug 7, 2:29 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:20 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 6:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Aug 27, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:45 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DTX | 8 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 30, 6:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Sep 11, 4:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Sep 13, 4:12 AM EDT | Frost Advisory | DTX | 28 hr |
| Sep 16, 3:13 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | DTX | 17 hr |
| Sep 26, 6:25 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DTX | 5 hr |
| Oct 5, 8:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | DTX | 14 hr |
| Oct 11, 7:05 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | DTX | 3 hr |
| Oct 31, 9:32 AM EDT | High Wind Watch | DTX | 5 hr |
| Oct 31, 2:58 PM EDT | High Wind Warning | DTX | 13 hr |
| Oct 31, 2:58 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | DTX | 23 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:34 AM EST | High Wind Watch | DTX | 7 hr |
| Nov 17, 10:29 AM EST | High Wind Warning | DTX | 17 hr |
| Nov 17, 11:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Nov 17, 3:51 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Nov 17, 5:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | DTX | 73 min |
| Nov 25, 9:51 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | DTX | 6 hr |
| Dec 3, 6:03 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | DTX | 2 hr |
| Dec 3, 8:06 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 6 hr |
| Dec 13, 4:16 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 41 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:15 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 42 hr |
| Dec 20, 1:41 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | DTX | 14 hr |
| Dec 21, 3:26 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | DTX | 30 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.