Alert archive / Ohio

Weather alerts in Columbiana County, Ohio

3,055 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Columbiana County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,055
Warnings
985
Watches
536
Advisories
465
Busiest year
2011197 alerts
Average year
75over 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, 60% of tornado reports in Columbiana County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 5 minutes before, and 53% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
20132150%0
2017110%1100%1 min
201920100%0
2020220%450%7 min
2021220%0
20243167%0
202520100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008151127%5100%23 min
200911827%4100%23 min
2010261446%683%28 min
2011302420%2592%24 min
2012251924%1878%21 min
2013312810%2396%23 min
2014171135%1979%20 min
2015181611%2492%17 min
2016201715%11100%22 min
2017332815%1883%19 min
201812120%1182%17 min
2019332718%1788%21 min
2020221723%2387%16 min
2021201810%1681%16 min
2022242113%875%13 min
202310820%1283%27 min
2024251924%1788%13 min
2025352626%1688%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009110%1100%110 min
2010220%3100%80 min
2011110%0
2013220%580%72 min
2016110%0
20182150%367%8 min
20195420%4100%93 min
20203233%0
20233167%2100%74 min
2024330%0
2025110%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
Sep 13, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ28 min
Sep 9, 11:38 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ4 hr
Sep 9, 10:09 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ109 min
Sep 9, 8:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Sep 9, 6:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ31 min
Sep 9, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ42 min
Sep 3, 7:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ2 hr
Sep 3, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ48 min
Sep 3, 5:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ6 hr
Sep 3, 5:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ5 hr
Sep 3, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ41 min
Sep 3, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ53 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.