Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Caswell County, North Carolina

3,053 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Caswell County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,053
Warnings
775
Watches
443
Advisories
439
Busiest year
2011184 alerts
Average year
74over 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, 50% of tornado reports in Caswell County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 3 minutes before, and 91% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%10%
200920100%0
201060100%0
20116183%1100%3 min
201210100%0
201310100%0
201510100%0
201610100%0
201720100%0
2018220%0
201950100%0
202020100%0
202130100%0
202240100%0
20249189%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008281932%1989%28 min
200914936%11100%21 min
2010252212%1782%21 min
2011292417%2793%21 min
201222215%1889%28 min
201310100%2580%30 min
2014161225%1267%18 min
2015151313%2483%21 min
2016302613%4083%31 min
201714140%1283%18 min
2018191521%1182%34 min
2019231439%2080%25 min
2020181517%2370%22 min
2021121017%367%18 min
202225238%2458%34 min
2023141214%2576%18 min
202416160%1369%20 min
2025231917%14100%20 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086517%3100%262 min
20092150%1100%294 min
2010440%1100%51 min
201210100%0
20132150%0
201620100%0
20188713%3100%250 min
201910100%0
2020220%0
202120100%0
202220100%0
2024550%1100%569 min
20253233%11100%74 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 21, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK44 min
Sep 21, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
Sep 5, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK65 min
Aug 22, 9:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK54 min
Aug 22, 8:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK60 min
Aug 14, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK30 min
Jul 28, 7:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK43 min
Jul 28, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK49 min
Jul 19, 5:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK61 min
Jul 8, 9:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK40 min
Jul 8, 4:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK41 min
Jul 8, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK65 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.