Alert archive / North Carolina

Weather alerts in Madison County, North Carolina

2,758 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Madison County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,758
Warnings
598
Watches
401
Advisories
915
Busiest year
2011221 alerts
Average year
79over 35 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.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811645%7100%18 min
200921957%786%29 min
201010730%786%19 min
2011332330%2492%21 min
2012271448%7100%33 min
201312833%4100%25 min
201412925%967%16 min
2015440%683%12 min
201610640%786%19 min
2017220%2100%22 min
20189811%4100%17 min
20196350%2100%16 min
20205340%1100%23 min
2021220%367%12 min
202211555%250%10 min
2023211719%11100%15 min
2024151033%888%34 min
20257529%450%12 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20092150%450%11 min
20102150%1100%24 min
2011110%1100%81 min
201210100%0
2013330%367%128 min
201520100%10%
2017110%4100%28 min
201910100%0
202010100%0
202110100%0
20244175%0

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 5, 12:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP48 min
Aug 22, 11:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP52 min
Aug 17, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP64 min
Jul 28, 6:22 PM EDTTornado WarningGSP38 min
Jul 28, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP61 min
Jul 28, 6:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP43 min
Jul 28, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningGSP39 min
Jul 28, 5:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP42 min
Jun 29, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP53 min
Mar 27, 2:27 PM EDTRed Flag WarningGSP32 hr
Mar 16, 7:12 AM EDTTornado WarningGSP33 min
Mar 16, 6:40 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP65 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.