Alert archive / Pennsylvania

Weather alerts in Carbon County, Pennsylvania

3,469 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Carbon County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,469
Warnings
750
Watches
620
Advisories
850
Busiest year
2011289 alerts
Average year
91over 38 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, 50% of tornado reports in Carbon County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 9 minutes before, and 80% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910100%0
201110100%10%
201410100%0
2018110%1100%9 min
201910100%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008191047%580%26 min
200916944%6100%12 min
201013931%1100%34 min
2011281643%16100%20 min
201213746%5100%29 min
20139456%450%60 min
20149633%4100%7 min
20154325%0
20168538%0
2017141214%989%22 min
20189722%3100%15 min
2019221723%1392%22 min
2020141121%989%28 min
2021221914%12100%23 min
20229722%1100%38 min
2023241633%1580%23 min
2024191616%1191%21 min
202512650%580%27 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%0
20096183%0
20114175%0
20124325%771%35 min
201310100%0
2014110%0
20154325%2100%92 min
201610100%0
201720100%0
20195340%0
202010100%0
2021220%20%
20233233%10%
20243167%0
20253233%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 3, 9:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI31 min
Sep 1, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI46 min
Sep 1, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI40 min
Aug 10, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI40 min
Aug 10, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI39 min
Aug 7, 4:04 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI2 hr
Aug 7, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI65 min
Jul 21, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI43 min
Jul 15, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI33 min
Jul 15, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI39 min
Jul 15, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPHI30 min
Jul 5, 10:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPHI4 hr

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.