Alert archive / North Dakota / McLean County

Weather alerts in McLean County, North Dakota, 2018

87 weather alerts in 2018, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

McLean County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
87
Warnings
32
Watches
13
Advisories
1
Busiest month
June39 alerts
Busiest day
June 29, 201810 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 3 tornado warnings covering McLean County in 2018 had a tornado report inside them.

McLean County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings30100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings251636%1493%30 min
Flash flood warnings220%1100%35 min

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Bismarck, ND: tornado warnings24579%2264%9 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: severe thunderstorm warnings27516440%31590%28 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: flash flood warnings7443%771%119 min

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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 4, 3:47 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Mar 5, 11:13 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Mar 30, 3:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Apr 28, 3:40 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBIS17 hr
Apr 29, 10:57 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS48 min
May 4, 4:01 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBIS15 hr
May 27, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS62 min
May 27, 2:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS46 min
May 27, 3:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS62 min
May 28, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS37 min
May 31, 2:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
May 31, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 1, 6:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS64 min
Jun 1, 2:13 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 1, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 1, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS57 min
Jun 1, 5:56 PM CDTTornado WarningBIS34 min
Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDTTornado WarningBIS28 min
Jun 1, 6:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jun 1, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningBIS13 min
Jun 1, 6:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS60 min
Jun 1, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS41 min
Jun 1, 8:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jun 10, 2:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 10, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 10, 6:15 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 10, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS53 min
Jun 10, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS59 min
Jun 10, 9:02 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jun 14, 2:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 14, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 14, 6:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jun 14, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS67 min
Jun 14, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS18 min
Jun 26, 3:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Jun 26, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 26, 6:46 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jun 26, 9:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jun 28, 1:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jun 28, 3:16 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 28, 6:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 28, 9:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 28, 9:11 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBIS6 hr
Jun 28, 10:00 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS45 min
Jun 28, 10:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS53 min
Jun 28, 10:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 28, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS59 min
Jun 28, 10:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jun 28, 11:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningBIS6 hr
Jun 28, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS67 min
Jun 29, 12:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS66 min
Jul 1, 5:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 3, 1:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 3, 4:15 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jul 3, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 3, 11:32 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBIS6 hr
Jul 3, 11:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS62 min
Jul 4, 12:49 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Jul 7, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 8, 1:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS38 min
Jul 9, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 9, 8:59 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jul 9, 10:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jul 10, 1:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS53 min
Jul 10, 2:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS57 min
Jul 10, 2:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS59 min
Jul 10, 7:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jul 14, 3:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Jul 14, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 14, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS18 min
Jul 19, 3:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 19, 4:28 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS32 min
Jul 24, 11:28 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 29, 5:25 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS35 min
Aug 4, 3:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Aug 26, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS49 min
Sep 3, 5:00 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Sep 3, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Sep 3, 8:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 3, 10:40 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Sep 6, 6:06 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Sep 12, 9:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 12, 10:46 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS44 min
Sep 12, 11:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS30 min
Sep 12, 11:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS60 min
Sep 13, 12:24 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS51 min
Nov 27, 8:03 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr

By product

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

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.