Alert archive / New York

Weather alerts in Richmond County, New York

3,379 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Richmond County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,379
Warnings
543
Watches
508
Advisories
1,144
Busiest year
2011222 alerts
Average year
87over 39 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, of tornado reports in Richmond 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
20102150%0
201920100%0
202110100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084250%1100%16 min
20095260%0
20104250%0
20114175%10%
2012880%3100%47 min
2013550%0
20145420%4100%28 min
20153233%0
201610730%0
2017440%0
2018220%771%22 min
2019211719%1070%15 min
20208625%1100%20 min
2021151127%367%20 min
2022550%2100%16 min
20238450%1100%9 min
2024131023%1100%37 min
202512742%1989%25 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087443%0
2009110%0
2010110%0
20114325%0
20124325%4100%32 min
20136517%2100%52 min
2014550%1100%23 min
2015220%1100%63 min
2016110%0
2017220%10%
2018660%989%74 min
2019660%333%40 min
20205340%0
2021770%9100%107 min
20224250%0
2023220%0
20242150%0
2025550%1100%59 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 25, 5:27 AM EDTCoastal Flood WarningOKX58 hr
Sep 1, 7:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX82 min
Sep 1, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX34 min
Aug 27, 4:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX87 min
Aug 27, 3:33 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX3 hr
Aug 27, 1:16 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatOKX108 min
Aug 27, 12:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX46 min
Aug 27, 12:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX2 hr
Aug 23, 6:12 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX108 min
Aug 23, 5:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOKX22 min
Aug 20, 5:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX2 hr
Aug 7, 5:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningOKX2 hr

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.