Alert archive / North Dakota

Weather alerts in Pembina County, North Dakota

2,682 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pembina County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,682
Warnings
761
Watches
426
Advisories
1,064
Busiest year
2022170 alerts
Average year
67over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 57% of tornado reports in Pembina County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 27 minutes before, and 48% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20084325%580%43 min
2009110%0
20103167%2100%7 min
201120100%0
2012110%20%
201310100%20%
20142150%0
20153233%1100%28 min
2016110%1100%6 min
2017220%0
2018110%0
201910100%0
202010100%0
2022110%0
202430100%0
2025010%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%60%
20094325%367%17 min
201011555%475%21 min
20117614%989%25 min
201210910%1090%20 min
2013330%475%10 min
2014550%1070%20 min
201512118%1464%29 min
2016141214%1385%29 min
2017770%12100%27 min
20187529%1486%33 min
201912742%743%14 min
2020262312%1593%23 min
2021121017%1593%25 min
2022131115%8100%35 min
20237271%0
20247529%683%11 min
20259633%0

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20092150%367%99 min
20103167%333%187 min
2016110%1100%57 min
20192150%1100%22 min
2020110%0
2023110%1100%1 min
202420100%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

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

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 26, 11:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF56 min
Jul 24, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF25 min
Jul 11, 1:44 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningFGF59 hr
Jul 9, 5:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF63 min
Jun 9, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF64 min
Jun 2, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF42 min
Jun 2, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFGF55 min
May 19, 1:03 PM CDTFreeze WarningFGF20 hr
May 13, 2:22 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFGF55 hr
May 11, 1:55 PM CDTRed Flag WarningFGF31 hr
May 11, 10:56 AM CDTRed Flag WarningFGF11 hr
May 9, 11:31 AM CDTFreeze WarningFGF21 hr

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.