Alert archive / North Dakota

Weather alerts in Stutsman County, North Dakota

3,605 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Stutsman County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,605
Warnings
1,044
Watches
581
Advisories
1,160
Busiest year
2011240 alerts
Average year
88over 41 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, 41% of tornado reports in Stutsman County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 10 minutes before, and 84% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20104175%250%19 min
201115193%10%
201210100%0
201450100%60%
201620100%10%
201820100%0
2019110%1100%10 min
202010100%0
20212150%2100%7 min
202210100%0
202430100%10%
20257357%3100%10 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820670%2100%39 min
200940100%0
2010391659%10100%27 min
2011301550%1753%32 min
201217665%1080%21 min
201314379%367%39 min
2014131023%10100%29 min
201510730%771%25 min
2016221436%1493%22 min
2017141121%978%19 min
2018231535%1377%26 min
2019171418%2295%24 min
2020191237%1173%15 min
2021181328%1573%14 min
2022161319%1587%21 min
20235340%2100%4 min
2024171229%1385%18 min
2025312326%4295%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200920100%0
201030100%0
201112375%2100%46 min
201330100%0
2014220%3100%86 min
2019110%0
20242150%1100%18 min

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
Aug 30, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS30 min
Aug 24, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS64 min
Aug 24, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS28 min
Aug 24, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS63 min
Aug 24, 6:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS56 min
Aug 24, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS56 min
Aug 24, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS58 min
Aug 24, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS53 min
Aug 24, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBIS66 min
Aug 12, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS46 min
Aug 11, 11:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS53 min
Aug 11, 8:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBIS56 min

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.