Alert archive / Nevada / Lincoln County
Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Nevada, 2013
88 weather alerts in 2013, 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 88
- Warnings
- 43
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 31
- Busiest month
- August22 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 24, 20138 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, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 12 | 1 | 92% | 3 | 33% | 1 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 20 | 5 | 75% | 6 | 100% | 43 min |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Las Vegas, NV: severe thunderstorm warnings | 74 | 14 | 81% | 75 | 49% | 18 min |
| NWS Las Vegas, NV: flash flood warnings | 303 | 106 | 65% | 254 | 73% | 67 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 9, 2:31 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 28 hr |
| Jan 9, 3:10 PM PST | Wind Advisory | VEF | 28 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:59 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 49 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:40 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 48 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:40 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 54 hr |
| Apr 6, 3:47 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | VEF | 23 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:15 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | VEF | 36 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:36 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 19 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:30 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 37 hr |
| May 15, 2:52 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 28 hr |
| May 21, 2:45 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 29 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:37 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 24 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:55 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 42 hr |
| Jun 10, 2:25 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 7 hr |
| Jun 11, 2:55 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 66 hr |
| Jun 11, 8:56 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 22 hr |
| Jun 17, 2:42 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 32 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:20 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | VEF | 23 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:47 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 29 hr |
| Jun 22, 2:47 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | VEF | 53 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:52 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | VEF | 49 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:31 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | VEF | 9 days |
| Jul 12, 2:01 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Jul 12, 3:28 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 2 hr |
| Jul 19, 1:28 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 4 days |
| Jul 20, 5:19 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 41 min |
| Jul 20, 6:15 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 90 min |
| Jul 21, 3:38 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 52 min |
| Jul 22, 8:59 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 2:35 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 115 min |
| Jul 23, 6:47 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 118 min |
| Jul 25, 5:05 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 115 min |
| Jul 26, 9:25 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 10:06 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 114 min |
| Jul 27, 12:00 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 4:01 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 119 min |
| Jul 28, 11:28 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 11 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:25 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:52 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:50 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 40 min |
| Aug 17, 12:09 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 20, 1:06 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 2:12 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 4 days |
| Aug 24, 11:30 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 45 min |
| Aug 24, 12:04 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 116 min |
| Aug 24, 2:24 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 36 min |
| Aug 24, 2:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 33 min |
| Aug 24, 2:31 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 29 min |
| Aug 24, 2:55 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 35 min |
| Aug 24, 2:56 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 34 min |
| Aug 24, 3:24 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 51 min |
| Aug 29, 3:42 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 2:36 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 18 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:38 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 112 min |
| Aug 30, 3:01 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 119 min |
| Aug 30, 3:55 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 54 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:54 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:42 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 2 hr |
| Aug 31, 11:32 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 1:38 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 2:52 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:09 PM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 31 hr |
| Aug 31, 6:25 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 2:44 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 3 hr |
| Sep 1, 4:56 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:37 AM PDT | Flash Flood Watch | VEF | 18 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:05 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:45 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:52 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 113 min |
| Sep 3, 3:10 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 5:29 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 2 hr |
| Sep 4, 6:54 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Sep 4, 7:00 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 90 min |
| Sep 6, 3:55 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | VEF | 3 hr |
| Sep 8, 4:31 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 44 min |
| Sep 8, 4:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | VEF | 42 min |
| Sep 11, 1:47 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | VEF | 118 min |
| Sep 16, 2:37 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 30 hr |
| Sep 20, 3:00 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 48 hr |
| Oct 8, 3:03 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 48 hr |
| Oct 27, 2:27 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | VEF | 30 hr |
| Oct 29, 10:12 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 16 hr |
| Nov 20, 2:46 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 4 days |
| Nov 22, 2:26 PM PST | Wind Advisory | VEF | 6 hr |
| Dec 1, 2:47 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | VEF | 24 hr |
| Dec 2, 3:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | VEF | 36 hr |
| Dec 5, 3:00 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | VEF | 55 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:22 PM PST | Wind Chill Warning | VEF | 19 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 | 12 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 20 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 7 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 14 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 8 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Wind Chill Warning | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 9 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 7 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
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.