Alert archive / New York

Weather alerts in St. Lawrence County, New York

2,622 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

St. Lawrence County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,622
Warnings
710
Watches
329
Advisories
700
Busiest year
2022161 alerts
Average year
71over 37 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 St. Lawrence County fell inside a tornado warning, and 100% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2024010%
202510100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008211243%1995%23 min
200911464%475%26 min
20108363%1385%17 min
2011161131%1794%25 min
2012272219%2396%22 min
2013191616%2588%35 min
20143233%888%57 min
20154175%450%10 min
201613931%1385%29 min
201714137%2095%21 min
201811109%863%36 min
201910730%1392%19 min
202013838%2070%13 min
202110640%1883%25 min
2022191521%2090%27 min
20234175%450%10 min
20249722%967%12 min
2025191237%1878%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20112150%0
201330100%0
201510100%0
20174325%7100%115 min
2018110%0
202010100%0
202220100%0
2023010%
2024330%7100%123 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, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV58 min
Sep 2, 11:32 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBTV3 hr
Aug 14, 2:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV29 min
Aug 10, 9:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV47 min
Aug 10, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV39 min
Aug 10, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV44 min
Jul 29, 3:21 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningBTV2 hr
Jul 28, 7:04 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBTV116 min
Jul 21, 7:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV41 min
Jul 15, 2:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBTV3 min
Jul 15, 2:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTV14 min
Jul 15, 1:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBTV17 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.