Alert archive / North Dakota / Ward County
Weather alerts in Ward County, North Dakota, 2022
65 weather alerts in 2022, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Ward County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 65
- Warnings
- 20
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 1
- Busiest month
- July31 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 19, 20228 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Ward County in 2022 had a tornado report inside them.
Ward County, 2022
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 16 | 11 | 31% | 9 | 78% | 14 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2022
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Bismarck, ND: tornado warnings | 9 | 3 | 67% | 9 | 56% | 10 min |
| NWS Bismarck, ND: severe thunderstorm warnings | 159 | 118 | 26% | 291 | 88% | 24 min |
| NWS Bismarck, ND: flash flood warnings | 2 | 2 | 0% | 3 | 100% | 39 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 8:32 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Feb 13, 5:44 PM CST | Snow Squall Warning | BIS | 61 min |
| Apr 12, 8:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 13, 4:30 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 17, 8:31 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 17, 1:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 7, 2:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| May 7, 4:13 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 32 min |
| May 12, 4:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 36 min |
| May 12, 5:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 27 min |
| May 12, 5:56 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 34 min |
| May 12, 6:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 33 min |
| May 13, 2:08 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 37 min |
| Jun 13, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 61 min |
| Jun 13, 7:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jun 13, 8:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 58 min |
| Jun 19, 3:49 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 20, 8:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 52 min |
| Jun 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 46 min |
| Jun 23, 8:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 31 min |
| Jun 23, 8:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 33 min |
| Jun 23, 8:47 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 28 min |
| Jul 2, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 45 min |
| Jul 2, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 60 min |
| Jul 4, 6:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 11:20 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Jul 6, 4:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 12:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BIS | 2 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:01 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Jul 9, 2:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 61 min |
| Jul 9, 3:46 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 44 min |
| Jul 9, 4:31 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 29 min |
| Jul 9, 8:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 10, 1:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Jul 10, 4:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 62 min |
| Jul 10, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Jul 18, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 7:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jul 18, 11:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 41 min |
| Jul 18, 11:19 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jul 18, 11:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 38 min |
| Jul 19, 12:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 1:45 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 2:23 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 37 min |
| Jul 19, 2:34 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jul 22, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 56 min |
| Jul 22, 9:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | BIS | 33 min |
| Jul 30, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jul 30, 9:46 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 29 min |
| Aug 14, 5:11 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Aug 18, 12:29 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | BIS | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 3:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 55 min |
| Aug 23, 3:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 66 min |
| Aug 23, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BIS | 68 min |
| Aug 23, 4:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Oct 11, 12:57 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BIS | 14 hr |
| Oct 12, 3:07 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BIS | 17 hr |
| Oct 12, 10:42 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BIS | 9 hr |
| Oct 12, 7:59 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | BIS | 24 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 16 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 21 |
| Special Weather Statement | 15 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 1 |
| Winter | |
| Snow Squall Warning | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 2 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.