Alert archive / North Dakota / Foster County

Weather alerts in Foster County, North Dakota, 2023

83 weather alerts in 2023, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Foster County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 83
Warnings: 13
Watches: 11
Advisories: 43
Busiest month: March15 alerts
Busiest day: August 1, 20234 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Foster County, 2023

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	0			0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	2	1	50%	1	100%	42 min
Flash flood warnings	0			0

Each office's whole area, 2023

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Bismarck, ND: tornado warnings	4	1	75%	4	25%	11 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: severe thunderstorm warnings	132	89	33%	203	86%	26 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: flash flood warnings	1	0	100%	0

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 2:06 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	34 hr
Jan 4, 12:27 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	14 hr
Jan 15, 6:18 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	33 hr
Jan 16, 10:34 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	25 hr
Jan 25, 4:06 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BIS	51 hr
Jan 27, 1:01 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	BIS	71 hr
Jan 28, 1:27 PM CST	Wind Chill Warning	BIS	46 hr
Jan 30, 11:25 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	BIS	25 hr
Feb 1, 1:45 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	BIS	46 hr
Feb 5, 6:29 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	6 hr
Feb 14, 3:28 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BIS	14 hr
Feb 14, 3:28 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	29 hr
Feb 19, 2:39 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	42 hr
Feb 21, 1:58 PM CST	Wind Chill Warning	BIS	46 hr
Feb 21, 1:58 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	BIS	4 days
Feb 27, 2:37 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	45 hr
Mar 3, 2:44 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	BIS	24 hr
Mar 4, 2:59 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	BIS	39 hr
Mar 4, 2:59 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	36 hr
Mar 6, 1:35 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	38 hr
Mar 9, 10:14 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	BIS	16 hr
Mar 10, 2:43 AM CST	Blizzard Warning	BIS	47 hr
Mar 10, 8:41 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	38 hr
Mar 10, 11:08 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Mar 11, 4:41 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Mar 17, 3:37 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	17 hr
Mar 17, 2:33 PM CDT	Wind Chill Advisory	BIS	20 hr
Mar 20, 2:20 PM CDT	Winter Storm Watch	BIS	13 hr
Mar 20, 2:20 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	35 hr
Mar 23, 6:42 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	5 hr
Mar 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	12 hr
Apr 2, 3:22 AM CDT	Winter Storm Watch	BIS	33 hr
Apr 3, 4:05 AM CDT	Blizzard Warning	BIS	68 hr
Apr 5, 1:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Apr 12, 9:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	39 hr
Apr 14, 12:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	BIS	6 days
Apr 20, 3:07 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	42 hr
Apr 21, 3:21 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	BIS	68 hr
May 23, 6:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	26 min
May 23, 7:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	35 min
Jun 8, 9:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	35 min
Jun 28, 8:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	25 min
Jul 13, 2:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 18, 5:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 18, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jul 18, 8:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	48 min
Jul 18, 9:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	BIS	14 min
Jul 31, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Aug 1, 3:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Aug 1, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Aug 1, 5:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Aug 1, 8:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BIS	6 hr
Aug 16, 3:14 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	18 hr
Aug 24, 2:22 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	8 hr
Aug 24, 1:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Aug 24, 2:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Aug 26, 5:53 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	5 hr
Sep 4, 5:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Sep 4, 9:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Sep 4, 9:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BIS	93 min
Sep 12, 6:42 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	4 hr
Sep 17, 5:03 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	4 hr
Sep 25, 4:23 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	8 hr
Oct 5, 1:22 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	21 hr
Oct 5, 2:31 PM CDT	Freeze Watch	BIS	20 hr
Oct 6, 10:03 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	BIS	23 hr
Oct 9, 6:16 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	5 hr
Oct 23, 11:34 AM CDT	Winter Storm Watch	BIS	49 hr
Oct 24, 4:17 PM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	BIS	61 hr
Oct 26, 10:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Oct 30, 11:25 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	BIS	11 hr
Nov 8, 1:45 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	4 hr
Nov 25, 3:42 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BIS	32 hr
Dec 4, 11:34 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	11 hr
Dec 7, 4:23 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BIS	32 hr
Dec 7, 4:25 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	56 hr
Dec 10, 10:05 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	11 hr
Dec 17, 9:32 AM CST	Wind Advisory	BIS	10 hr
Dec 23, 10:16 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	3 hr
Dec 23, 6:04 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	BIS	8 hr
Dec 24, 2:20 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	BIS	58 hr
Dec 25, 2:52 AM CST	Ice Storm Warning	BIS	49 hr
Dec 26, 5:27 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	11
Special Weather Statement	5
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	2
River Flood Warning	1
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Watch	5
Winter Weather Advisory	12
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Wind Chill Warning	2
Freeze Watch	1
Wind Chill Advisory	5
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	8
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	17

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.