Alert archive / North Dakota / McLean County

Weather alerts in McLean County, North Dakota, 2020

77 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
77
Warnings
28
Watches
11
Advisories
0
Busiest month
July31 alerts
Busiest day
July 17, 20208 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 1 tornado warnings covering McLean County in 2020 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

McLean County, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings110%10%
Severe thunderstorm warnings231343%1275%27 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Bismarck, ND: tornado warnings18478%1331%6 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: severe thunderstorm warnings29117141%33983%25 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: flash flood warnings10100%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 20, 1:09 PM CDTRed Flag WarningBIS6 hr
Jun 6, 9:05 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS40 min
Jun 6, 9:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS28 min
Jun 6, 8:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 6, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 6, 11:09 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS51 min
Jun 6, 11:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 6, 11:59 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS46 min
Jun 7, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS44 min
Jun 14, 2:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jun 14, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 14, 6:19 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Jun 14, 8:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 16, 6:55 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 16, 10:27 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 16, 11:48 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS42 min
Jun 28, 1:54 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 28, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 28, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS50 min
Jun 28, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS23 min
Jun 28, 6:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS60 min
Jun 28, 6:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 29, 4:56 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 29, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS59 min
Jun 29, 9:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 29, 10:17 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS43 min
Jun 30, 9:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS45 min
Jun 30, 1:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS49 min
Jul 2, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Jul 2, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS45 min
Jul 2, 5:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS43 min
Jul 2, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS27 min
Jul 2, 7:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jul 4, 1:18 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS42 min
Jul 5, 1:25 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 7, 7:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 7, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 7, 11:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS54 min
Jul 7, 11:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jul 7, 11:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS63 min
Jul 7, 11:18 PM CDTTornado WarningBIS27 min
Jul 7, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS67 min
Jul 10, 2:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 10, 3:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 12, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS61 min
Jul 13, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS42 min
Jul 13, 1:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS41 min
Jul 13, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS23 min
Jul 13, 8:54 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS51 min
Jul 17, 12:10 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 17, 12:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 hr
Jul 17, 2:25 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jul 17, 3:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Jul 17, 5:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS25 min
Jul 17, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS61 min
Jul 17, 6:04 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Jul 17, 6:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS66 min
Jul 18, 1:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Jul 25, 3:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Aug 4, 7:18 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC117 min
Aug 4, 7:44 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS31 min
Aug 4, 9:06 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS24 min
Aug 7, 6:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 7, 7:30 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS30 min
Aug 7, 8:04 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS41 min
Aug 9, 2:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS34 min
Aug 11, 8:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS56 min
Aug 12, 6:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Aug 14, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS56 min
Aug 23, 1:34 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS41 min
Aug 31, 3:56 AM CDTFire Weather WatchBIS11 hr
Aug 31, 2:29 PM CDTRed Flag WarningBIS30 hr
Sep 1, 5:56 AM CDTFire Weather WatchBIS8 hr
Sep 1, 2:23 PM CDTRed Flag WarningBIS32 hr
Oct 5, 2:35 PM CDTFire Weather WatchBIS13 hr
Oct 6, 3:51 AM CDTRed Flag WarningBIS12 hr
Oct 29, 8:47 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS58 min

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.