Alert archive / Nevada / Lincoln County
Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Nevada, 2009
87 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Lincoln County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 87
- Warnings
- 26
- Watches
- 24
- Advisories
- 34
- Busiest month
- April13 alerts
- Busiest day
- March 21, 20093 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Lincoln County, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 50% | 8 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Las Vegas, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings | 53 | 7 | 87% | 39 | 26% | 17 min |
| NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings | 32 | 7 | 78% | 19 | 37% | 55 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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 2:28 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 13 hr |
| Jan 25, 3:23 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 18 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:10 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 21 hr |
| Feb 4, 3:44 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 48 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:54 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 60 hr |
| Feb 7, 4:09 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 24 hr |
| Feb 8, 4:16 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 39 hr |
| Feb 9, 4:42 AM PST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:25 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 25 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:58 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 12 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:58 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 33 hr |
| Feb 13, 4:56 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:52 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 35 hr |
| Feb 15, 3:46 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 32 hr |
| Mar 2, 4:42 AM PST | Wind Advisory | VEF | 39 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:02 AM PST | Wind Advisory | VEF | 17 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:10 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 33 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:51 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 25 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:03 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 23 hr |
| Mar 20, 10:03 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 47 hr |
| Mar 21, 3:51 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 31 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:33 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 28 hr |
| Mar 26, 9:35 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 10 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:07 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 37 hr |
| Mar 29, 8:00 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 19 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:34 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 47 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:49 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 53 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:59 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 15 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:34 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 40 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:03 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 24 hr |
| Apr 13, 3:27 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 36 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:25 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 26 hr |
| Apr 21, 3:47 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 21 hr |
| Apr 22, 12:52 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 3 days |
| Apr 22, 3:08 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 41 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:11 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 19 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:11 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 40 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:55 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 24 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:46 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 17 hr |
| May 19, 4:28 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 11 hr |
| Jun 4, 3:36 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 29 hr |
| Jun 20, 10:40 AM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 20, 12:34 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 56 min |
| Jul 2, 8:39 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 66 min |
| Jul 3, 9:13 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 2 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:51 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 37 hr |
| Jul 6, 2:39 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 32 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:48 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 13 hr |
| Jul 24, 3:43 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 17 hr |
| Jul 24, 5:56 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 94 min |
| Jul 25, 5:37 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 113 min |
| Jul 29, 3:06 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 2 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:10 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 48 hr |
| Aug 4, 6:32 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 8 hr |
| Aug 4, 2:37 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 54 hr |
| Aug 5, 3:10 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 30 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:09 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 18 hr |
| Aug 14, 4:30 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 14 hr |
| Aug 23, 3:11 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:43 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 16 hr |
| Sep 4, 11:33 AM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Sep 27, 2:05 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 26 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:05 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 38 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:09 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 37 hr |
| Sep 28, 3:16 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 31 hr |
| Sep 29, 3:50 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 24 hr |
| Oct 2, 10:36 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 18 hr |
| Oct 2, 2:36 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 22 hr |
| Oct 3, 3:59 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 39 hr |
| Oct 3, 4:10 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 16 hr |
| Oct 4, 1:29 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 7 hr |
| Oct 19, 3:44 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 20 hr |
| Oct 25, 3:47 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 23 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:51 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 11 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:02 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 24 hr |
| Oct 26, 3:19 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 23 hr |
| Oct 27, 3:08 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 29 hr |
| Nov 28, 1:55 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 26 hr |
| Dec 5, 2:45 PM PST | High Wind Watch | VEF | 13 hr |
| Dec 5, 3:43 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 23 hr |
| Dec 6, 3:58 AM PST | Wind Advisory | VEF | 24 hr |
| Dec 6, 2:26 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 37 hr |
| Dec 7, 8:57 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 6 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:31 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 35 hr |
| Dec 11, 3:53 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 42 hr |
| Dec 21, 6:15 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 21 hr |
| Dec 30, 9:28 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 6 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 | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 6 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 6 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 11 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 7 |
| High Wind Watch | 7 |
| Wind Advisory | 20 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 10 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 9 |
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.