Alert archive / North Dakota / Nelson County

Weather alerts in Nelson County, North Dakota, 2017

101 weather alerts in 2017, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Nelson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
101
Warnings
21
Watches
11
Advisories
45
Busiest month
June20 alerts
Busiest day
June 10, 201710 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

2 of 4 tornado warnings covering Nelson County in 2017 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 5 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

Nelson County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings4250%50%
Severe thunderstorm warnings6517%757%5 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Grand Forks, ND: tornado warnings392438%6767%15 min
NWS Grand Forks, ND: severe thunderstorm warnings1481377%43576%26 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
Jan 1, 3:27 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF45 hr
Jan 2, 4:14 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningFGF32 hr
Jan 3, 2:18 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF70 hr
Jan 6, 2:54 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF21 hr
Jan 7, 3:30 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF18 hr
Jan 8, 3:30 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF12 hr
Jan 10, 2:55 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF45 hr
Jan 11, 3:33 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF23 hr
Jan 12, 9:35 AM CSTBlizzard WarningFGF3 hr
Jan 12, 2:49 PM CSTWind Chill WarningFGF21 hr
Jan 20, 6:03 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF18 hr
Jan 21, 5:53 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF18 hr
Jan 30, 4:14 AM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF15 hr
Feb 6, 3:11 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF22 hr
Feb 7, 2:22 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF43 hr
Feb 20, 12:46 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF8 hr
Feb 21, 6:43 PM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF8 hr
Mar 6, 6:34 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF4 hr
Mar 6, 11:19 AM CSTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF4 hr
Mar 6, 3:33 PM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF41 hr
Mar 7, 3:40 AM CSTHigh Wind WarningFGF17 hr
Mar 7, 6:14 PM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF15 hr
Mar 9, 3:34 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF29 hr
Mar 26, 11:49 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF14 hr
Mar 27, 8:46 PM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF15 hr
Apr 21, 5:14 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF5 hr
Apr 24, 3:51 AM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF12 hr
May 17, 3:41 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryFGF17 hr
May 18, 3:11 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryFGF17 hr
Jun 2, 3:39 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 9, 3:26 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 9, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 9, 7:08 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Jun 9, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFGF45 min
Jun 9, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFGF44 min
Jun 9, 8:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF38 min
Jun 9, 8:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFGF15 min
Jun 9, 9:30 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jun 10, 4:08 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF37 min
Jun 10, 5:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF50 min
Jun 10, 6:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF38 min
Jun 10, 6:49 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFGF41 min
Jun 13, 5:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 13, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 19, 1:42 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jun 22, 2:45 PM CDTWind AdvisoryFGF7 hr
Jun 28, 12:14 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFGF61 min
Jun 29, 4:36 AM CDTDense Fog AdvisoryFGF4 hr
Jun 29, 2:41 PM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFGF34 min
Jul 4, 3:33 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 4, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 5, 5:52 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 5, 9:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jul 5, 10:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 11, 3:48 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 11, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jul 11, 5:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF66 min
Jul 14, 3:03 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 19, 7:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Jul 21, 9:42 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Jul 21, 2:20 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 21, 3:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 hr
Jul 21, 3:53 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jul 21, 10:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jul 22, 12:36 AM CDTSpecial Weather StatementFGF24 min
Jul 31, 3:43 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Sep 1, 5:40 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFGF35 min
Sep 1, 6:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF33 min
Sep 19, 1:51 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Sep 19, 3:37 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Sep 19, 6:36 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Sep 19, 8:56 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Oct 4, 3:06 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryFGF18 hr
Oct 5, 2:51 PM CDTFrost AdvisoryFGF18 hr
Oct 8, 3:23 PM CDTFreeze WarningFGF18 hr
Oct 9, 3:01 AM CDTFreeze WarningFGF30 hr
Oct 17, 2:23 PM CDTWind AdvisoryFGF29 hr
Oct 17, 2:32 PM CDTFire Weather WatchFGF13 hr
Oct 18, 3:41 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFGF15 hr
Oct 24, 3:32 PM CDTWinter Storm WatchFGF37 hr
Oct 25, 3:15 PM CDTHigh Wind WarningFGF31 hr
Oct 30, 3:52 AM CDTWind AdvisoryFGF13 hr
Nov 3, 3:30 AM CDTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF43 hr
Nov 10, 10:55 AM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF4 hr
Nov 16, 7:55 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF10 hr
Nov 17, 3:02 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF2 hr
Nov 20, 10:59 AM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF19 hr
Nov 28, 3:23 AM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF15 hr
Nov 29, 3:07 AM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF14 hr
Nov 29, 5:03 PM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF7 hr
Dec 3, 3:54 AM CSTWinter Storm WatchFGF24 hr
Dec 3, 3:14 PM CSTBlizzard WarningFGF28 hr
Dec 4, 4:14 AM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF14 hr
Dec 12, 3:02 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF21 hr
Dec 13, 2:03 AM CSTWind AdvisoryFGF10 hr
Dec 19, 2:14 PM CSTWinter Weather AdvisoryFGF38 hr
Dec 23, 9:41 PM CSTWind Chill WatchFGF13 hr
Dec 24, 10:55 AM CSTWind Chill WarningFGF49 hr
Dec 24, 10:55 AM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF3 days
Dec 28, 3:42 PM CSTWind Chill AdvisoryFGF26 hr
Dec 29, 2:37 AM CSTWind Chill WarningFGF3 days

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.