Alert archive / Oregon / Columbia County

Weather alerts in Columbia County, Oregon, 2026

28 weather alerts in 2026, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Columbia County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
28
Warnings
2
Watches
2
Advisories
23
Busiest month
January6 alerts
Busiest day
February 5, 20262 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 Columbia County in 2026 had a tornado report inside them.

Columbia County, 2026

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings00
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2026

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Portland, OR: tornado warnings20100%0
NWS Portland, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
NWS Portland, OR: flash flood warnings020%

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

The year is still running; reports filed late and damage surveys can still change these figures.

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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 13, 2:56 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPQR21 hr
Jan 15, 2:27 PM PSTAir Stagnation AdvisoryPQR8 days
Jan 21, 12:08 PM PSTCold Weather AdvisoryPQR22 hr
Jan 22, 1:01 PM PSTCold Weather AdvisoryPQR22 hr
Jan 23, 12:51 PM PSTCold Weather AdvisoryPQR22 hr
Jan 24, 11:33 AM PSTCold Weather AdvisoryPQR23 hr
Feb 2, 9:56 AM PSTAir Stagnation AdvisoryPQR5 days
Feb 5, 7:24 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPQR4 hr
Feb 5, 11:04 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPQR95 min
Feb 10, 1:05 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPQR7 hr
Feb 15, 10:00 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPQR4 days
Feb 25, 5:32 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPQR6 hr
Mar 7, 10:48 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPQR4 days
Mar 11, 1:21 PM PDTFlood WatchPQR69 hr
Apr 1, 9:44 PM PDTFrost AdvisoryPQR36 hr
Apr 7, 12:58 AM PDTFrost AdvisoryPQR32 hr
Apr 15, 12:39 AM PDTFrost AdvisoryPQR32 hr
Apr 16, 10:45 AM PDTFrost AdvisoryPQR22 hr
May 1, 10:37 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryPQR60 hr
Jun 9, 10:42 AM PDTExtreme Heat WatchPQR59 hr
Jun 11, 9:13 PM PDTHeat AdvisoryPQR4 days
Jun 20, 11:25 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryPQR3 days
Jul 19, 10:07 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryPQR3 days
Aug 2, 10:16 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryPQR4 days
Sep 3, 12:20 PM PDTTornado WarningPQR25 min
Sep 3, 12:40 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPQR20 min
Sep 24, 9:47 AM PDTWind AdvisoryPQR25 hr
Sep 25, 7:44 AM PDTHigh Wind WarningPQR4 hr

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.