Alert archive / New Hampshire / Flash Flood Warnings

Flash Flood Warnings in New Hampshire, 2020

21 flash flood warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Flash Flood Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
21
Busiest month
July12 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
June 28, 20204 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

7 of 21 flash flood warnings covering New Hampshire in 2020 had a flash flood report inside them; 8 of 8 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 40 minutes after it went out.

New Hampshire, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings21767%8100%40 min

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Gray, ME: flash flood warnings26965%1493%39 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 27, 2:48 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCarroll3 hr
Jun 22, 4:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCoos61 min
Jun 28, 3:31 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXGrafton3 hr
Jun 28, 5:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCarroll3 hr
Jun 28, 6:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCarroll, Strafford3 hr
Jun 28, 6:58 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Strafford3 hr
Jul 3, 5:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXGrafton114 min
Jul 8, 2:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCheshire, Sullivan114 min
Jul 8, 4:23 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCheshire3 hr
Jul 8, 5:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCoos, Grafton3 hr
Jul 8, 5:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough3 hr
Jul 13, 12:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack110 min
Jul 13, 7:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton3 hr
Jul 14, 6:46 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXGrafton3 hr
Jul 14, 7:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Coos, Grafton3 hr
Jul 14, 8:14 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton5 hr
Jul 14, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXRockingham3 hr
Jul 22, 10:16 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXCheshire3 hr
Aug 24, 4:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham50 min
Nov 30, 8:26 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Sullivan3 hr
Nov 30, 8:44 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.