Alert archive / Oregon / Deschutes County
Weather alerts in Deschutes County, Oregon, 2024
72 weather alerts in 2024, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Deschutes County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 72
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 38
- Busiest month
- January17 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 7, 20245 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Deschutes County, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2024
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Medford, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings | 11 | 1 | 91% | 13 | 8% | 13 min |
| NWS Pendleton, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings | 11 | 5 | 55% | 24 | 38% | 19 min |
| NWS Pendleton, OR: flash flood warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS Portland, OR: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 3 | 0% | |
| NWS Portland, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings | 9 | 3 | 67% | 16 | 13% | 20 min |
| NWS Portland, OR: flash flood warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| NWS Boise, ID: severe thunderstorm warnings | 45 | 9 | 80% | 46 | 39% | 24 min |
| NWS Boise, ID: flash flood warnings | 7 | 0 | 100% | 3 | 0% |
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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 1:45 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 68 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:12 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 11 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:38 PM PST | Blizzard Warning | PDT | 68 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:38 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 6 days |
| Jan 7, 2:38 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 3 days |
| Jan 7, 2:41 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | 60 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:56 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 3 days |
| Jan 10, 2:50 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 4 days |
| Jan 11, 2:56 PM PST | Wind Chill Watch | PDT | 18 hr |
| Jan 12, 8:42 AM PST | Wind Chill Advisory | PDT | 43 hr |
| Jan 13, 12:05 PM PST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jan 15, 2:42 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 55 hr |
| Jan 18, 4:17 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 30 hr |
| Jan 20, 3:58 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 32 hr |
| Jan 23, 3:46 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 23 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:54 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 7 hr |
| Jan 26, 2:59 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 22 hr |
| Feb 12, 2:00 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 24 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:50 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 65 hr |
| Feb 13, 1:50 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 65 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:25 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 44 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:51 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 15 hr |
| Feb 19, 10:01 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 23 hr |
| Feb 23, 2:46 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 33 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:04 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 64 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:57 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 38 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:04 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 9 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:04 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 72 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:07 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | 49 hr |
| Mar 3, 1:55 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 44 hr |
| Mar 10, 7:37 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 63 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:32 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 36 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:53 AM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Apr 13, 1:25 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 27, 2:37 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 44 hr |
| May 1, 9:38 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 12 hr |
| May 3, 5:41 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 4 days |
| Jun 7, 5:11 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 34 min |
| Jul 2, 12:49 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | PDT | 14 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:02 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PDT | 8 days |
| Jul 3, 3:02 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 8 days |
| Jul 12, 2:19 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 68 hr |
| Jul 16, 6:27 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 33 min |
| Jul 16, 6:55 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 35 min |
| Jul 18, 1:38 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 4 days |
| Jul 21, 5:20 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 25 min |
| Jul 31, 12:56 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 55 hr |
| Aug 17, 1:22 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Aug 29, 12:44 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 3 days |
| Sep 2, 4:14 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 31 min |
| Sep 4, 12:36 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 4 days |
| Sep 7, 4:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 26 min |
| Sep 29, 1:55 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | PDT | 31 hr |
| Oct 29, 1:50 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 5 days |
| Nov 3, 1:42 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | 41 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 13 hr |
| Nov 15, 2:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 3 days |
| Nov 17, 12:06 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PDT | 25 hr |
| Nov 18, 1:26 PM PST | High Wind Warning | PDT | 45 hr |
| Nov 18, 1:26 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | 45 hr |
| Nov 18, 2:21 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 44 hr |
| Nov 20, 2:33 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 13 hr |
| Dec 1, 5:11 PM PST | Freezing Fog Advisory | PDT | 6 days |
| Dec 13, 3:15 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 55 hr |
| Dec 15, 3:04 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 11 hr |
| Dec 15, 2:00 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 44 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:19 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 48 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:19 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 48 hr |
| Dec 24, 1:30 PM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | 50 hr |
| Dec 26, 1:35 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 50 hr |
| Dec 28, 3:41 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 10 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:08 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 41 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 Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 6 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 1 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 9 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 8 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 22 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 6 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Wind Chill Watch | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 1 |
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.