Alert archive / New York

Weather alerts in Washington County, New York

3,526 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Washington County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,526
Warnings
1,025
Watches
476
Advisories
884
Busiest year
2011240 alerts
Average year
86over 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, 0% of tornado reports in Washington County fell inside a tornado warning, and 60% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201210100%0
20132150%0
201510100%0
201610100%0
201710100%0
20203233%10%
2024110%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008381755%683%30 min
200923961%560%17 min
2010151220%683%27 min
2011392926%10100%22 min
2012201620%1173%30 min
2013261831%1889%32 min
2014201715%2483%36 min
201511918%2080%26 min
2016201620%989%23 min
2017312423%2572%13 min
2018171324%2483%33 min
2019312229%16100%28 min
2020231917%7794%32 min
202129277%4879%19 min
2022292417%3990%25 min
2023282511%2576%24 min
2024161225%5066%13 min
202510100%1191%35 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084175%250%48 min
20095340%333%93 min
2010220%3100%188 min
20116350%1100%249 min
20134325%367%8 min
2014110%0
201510100%0
2017220%367%125 min
2020110%5100%8 min
20214325%2181%51 min
20222150%1100%40 min
20234325%333%35 min
2024110%3100%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
Aug 27, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALY38 min
Aug 27, 6:11 PM EDTTornado WarningALY21 min
Jul 29, 10:47 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningALY7 hr
Jul 29, 2:07 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningALY19 hr
Jul 29, 8:16 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningALY6 hr
Jul 15, 2:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALY47 min
Jul 1, 10:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALY42 min
Jun 30, 12:31 PM EDTExtreme Heat WarningALY3 days
Jun 18, 2:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningALY111 min
Jun 18, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALY25 min
Jun 18, 2:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALY53 min
Jun 18, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningALY23 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.