Alert archive / North Dakota / McLean County

Weather alerts in McLean County, North Dakota, 2023

44 weather alerts in 2023, 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
44
Warnings
22
Watches
5
Advisories
0
Busiest month
August21 alerts
Busiest day
August 24, 202311 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

McLean County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings181233%1788%30 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Bismarck, ND: tornado warnings4175%425%11 min
NWS Bismarck, ND: severe thunderstorm warnings1328933%20386%26 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
Mar 10, 11:08 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Mar 11, 4:41 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Apr 12, 10:27 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningBIS28 hr
Apr 12, 9:34 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningBIS39 hr
Apr 13, 2:50 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningBIS22 hr
Apr 14, 12:53 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningBIS6 days
May 9, 7:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS25 min
Jun 8, 1:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC116 min
Jun 8, 2:05 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS25 min
Jun 8, 2:31 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS29 min
Jun 8, 3:07 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS23 min
Jun 8, 3:32 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS28 min
Jun 8, 3:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS35 min
Jun 8, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS27 min
Jun 19, 9:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jun 19, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 20, 3:14 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 20, 4:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 20, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS52 min
Jun 20, 7:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS47 min
Jul 30, 1:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementBIS41 min
Aug 1, 3:12 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 1, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Aug 1, 6:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Aug 1, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS64 min
Aug 1, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS59 min
Aug 1, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS56 min
Aug 1, 8:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS65 min
Aug 10, 8:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS30 min
Aug 23, 3:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Aug 23, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 23, 7:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Aug 23, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS27 min
Aug 23, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS35 min
Aug 24, 1:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Aug 24, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS60 min
Aug 24, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS20 min
Aug 24, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 24, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS58 min
Aug 24, 5:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 24, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS67 min
Aug 24, 6:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS58 min
Sep 4, 8:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS46 min
Sep 4, 8:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS59 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.