Alert archive / New York / Niagara County
Weather alerts in Niagara County, New York, 2014
103 weather alerts in 2014, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Niagara County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 103
- Warnings
- 28
- Watches
- 16
- Advisories
- 40
- Busiest month
- January22 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 14, 20146 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Niagara County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 11 | 8 | 27% | 7 | 100% | 42 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 1 | 100% | 117 min |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Buffalo, NY: tornado warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS Buffalo, NY: severe thunderstorm warnings | 71 | 49 | 31% | 190 | 89% | 30 min |
| NWS Buffalo, NY: flash flood warnings | 24 | 14 | 42% | 73 | 95% | 140 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 3:52 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 3 days |
| Jan 1, 3:52 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 24 hr |
| Jan 1, 2:45 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BUF | 37 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:42 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 24 hr |
| Jan 4, 4:02 AM EST | Wind Chill Watch | BUF | 49 hr |
| Jan 5, 4:27 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | BUF | 3 days |
| Jan 5, 12:34 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BUF | 24 hr |
| Jan 5, 12:56 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BUF | 57 hr |
| Jan 5, 9:38 PM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | BUF | 3 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:23 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | 21 hr |
| Jan 18, 3:45 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BUF | 30 hr |
| Jan 20, 4:37 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 12 hr |
| Jan 20, 4:10 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 43 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:39 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 44 hr |
| Jan 23, 4:18 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 23 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:24 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 42 hr |
| Jan 24, 3:24 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BUF | 18 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:31 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 12 hr |
| Jan 26, 4:06 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 29 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:56 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | BUF | 66 hr |
| Jan 26, 3:56 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 66 hr |
| Jan 29, 9:39 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 5 hr |
| Feb 2, 9:33 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BUF | 30 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:24 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BUF | 55 hr |
| Feb 5, 9:41 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 36 hr |
| Feb 7, 3:00 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 18 hr |
| Feb 9, 12:43 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BUF | 48 hr |
| Feb 15, 9:16 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BUF | 8 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:11 PM EST | Flood Watch | BUF | 4 days |
| Feb 19, 3:20 PM EST | High Wind Watch | BUF | 25 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:28 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BUF | 62 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:00 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BUF | 22 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:02 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | 18 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:56 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BUF | 4 days |
| Feb 27, 4:04 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 29 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:53 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | 19 hr |
| Mar 10, 4:00 AM EDT | Winter Storm Watch | BUF | 24 hr |
| Mar 10, 3:55 PM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | BUF | 58 hr |
| Mar 11, 8:24 PM EDT | Blizzard Warning | BUF | 26 hr |
| Mar 12, 8:31 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Mar 12, 9:08 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:55 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BUF | 22 hr |
| Mar 29, 2:42 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 25 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:36 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BUF | 35 hr |
| Apr 4, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 75 min |
| Apr 9, 7:30 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BUF | 22 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:11 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | BUF | 13 hr |
| May 4, 7:26 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | BUF | 12 hr |
| May 9, 4:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 52 min |
| May 14, 10:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BUF | 18 hr |
| May 14, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 59 min |
| May 14, 5:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 61 min |
| May 14, 6:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | 4 hr |
| May 14, 6:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 56 min |
| May 14, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 15, 4:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BUF | 43 hr |
| Jun 11, 11:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 60 min |
| Jun 12, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 79 min |
| Jun 17, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 17, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 67 min |
| Jun 17, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 66 min |
| Jun 24, 11:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BUF | 28 hr |
| Jun 24, 2:18 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Jun 24, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 64 min |
| Jul 7, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 44 min |
| Jul 27, 4:49 AM EDT | Flood Watch | BUF | 34 hr |
| Jul 27, 11:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 82 min |
| Jul 27, 11:26 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | 4 hr |
| Jul 28, 7:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 83 min |
| Jul 30, 12:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 79 min |
| Jul 30, 12:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 12:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 52 min |
| Jul 30, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 44 min |
| Aug 12, 5:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 53 min |
| Sep 5, 10:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 30 min |
| Sep 6, 12:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 58 min |
| Oct 11, 1:32 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | BUF | 19 hr |
| Oct 16, 1:48 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BUF | 7 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:48 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 21 hr |
| Nov 19, 7:39 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 51 min |
| Nov 19, 9:44 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BUF | 6 hr |
| Nov 22, 3:42 AM EST | Freezing Rain Advisory | BUF | 19 hr |
| Nov 22, 3:53 PM EST | High Wind Watch | BUF | 23 hr |
| Nov 23, 2:40 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BUF | 31 hr |
| Nov 25, 8:23 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BUF | 13 hr |
| Dec 8, 3:51 AM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BUF | 24 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:11 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 3 days |
| Dec 11, 4:31 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 89 min |
| Dec 12, 5:14 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 20 hr |
| Dec 18, 1:10 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | 20 hr |
| Dec 23, 4:09 AM EST | High Wind Watch | BUF | 11 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:33 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BUF | 42 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:52 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 38 min |
| Dec 24, 10:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | 28 min |
| Dec 30, 9:14 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 91 min |
| Dec 30, 10:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 45 min |
| Dec 30, 11:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 39 min |
| Dec 30, 12:31 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | 44 min |
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.