Alert archive / New York

Weather alerts in Seneca County, New York

2,443 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Seneca County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,443
Warnings
604
Watches
390
Advisories
586
Busiest year
2011135 alerts
Average year
60over 41 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 Seneca County fell inside a tornado warning, and 89% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2011110%0
201310100%0
201510100%0
202120100%0
202430100%0
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008261446%3100%27 min
200920955%250%15 min
2010151313%4100%20 min
201123961%367%15 min
2012131023%9100%17 min
201311827%1275%15 min
2014141029%367%21 min
201511827%6100%23 min
20163233%0
2017191332%1100%9 min
20184175%10%
201912833%0
2020161131%7100%19 min
2021161131%989%11 min
2022141121%6100%25 min
2023191237%8100%21 min
2024221436%1173%16 min
2025191426%15100%18 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2010220%0
20112150%0
2013110%0
2014220%3100%113 min
20154325%0
20174250%0
2018220%6100%67 min
20215340%4100%31 min
202310100%0
20243233%2100%40 min
2025220%1100%47 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 13, 6:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM67 min
Sep 2, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBGM53 min
Sep 2, 8:18 PM EDTTornado WarningBGM42 min
Sep 2, 8:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBGM55 min
Sep 2, 9:05 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM55 min
Aug 27, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM48 min
Jul 18, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM54 min
Jul 18, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM57 min
Jul 4, 4:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGM61 min
Jul 4, 3:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM71 min
Jul 3, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM54 min
Jul 3, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGM48 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.