Alert archive / New York

Weather alerts in Otsego County, New York

3,444 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Otsego County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,444
Warnings
923
Watches
531
Advisories
700
Busiest year
2011245 alerts
Average year
86over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 0% of tornado reports in Otsego County fell inside a tornado warning, and 80% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
20114175%30%
201210100%0
20132150%0
2014110%0
201510100%0
20172150%0
201910100%0
202010100%0
202110100%0
202310100%0
202430100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008371949%2195%27 min
2009211338%9100%29 min
2010241921%1191%21 min
2011442836%2483%23 min
2012201430%1191%25 min
2013231917%2085%16 min
2014201240%1771%29 min
20157443%1080%18 min
20165420%757%20 min
2017191332%1688%19 min
201810460%475%33 min
2019181422%19100%18 min
2020171418%2875%18 min
2021362628%2080%15 min
2022201525%2273%22 min
2023331942%3879%22 min
202412833%1258%29 min
20259811%7100%28 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008330%0
20093233%2100%27 min
20105180%0
20119722%989%144 min
201210100%0
201310820%9100%91 min
20142150%0
201510100%0
20162150%0
20172150%0
2018330%5100%65 min
20192150%1100%14 min
202020100%0
20218450%1164%51 min
20238625%1283%128 min
20244250%2100%70 min
20255420%4100%111 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 2, 9:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM46 min
Aug 27, 9:19 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM3 hr
Aug 27, 8:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM3 hr
Aug 27, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM57 min
Aug 27, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM49 min
Aug 27, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM65 min
Aug 27, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM34 min
Aug 27, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM39 min
Aug 8, 2:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM35 min
Aug 6, 6:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM3 hr
Aug 3, 12:39 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM3 hr
Jul 21, 2:22 PM EDTTornado WarningBGM23 min

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.