Alert archive / Pennsylvania

Weather alerts in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

3,453 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Fayette County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,453
Warnings
1,257
Watches
570
Advisories
624
Busiest year
2011210 alerts
Average year
84over 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, 38% of tornado reports in Fayette County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 7 minutes before, and 82% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200910100%0
201020100%0
201310100%0
201520100%0
201610100%10%
20172150%1100%12 min
201820100%10%
202010100%0
2021110%1100%10 min
202230100%0
202310100%20%
20243167%650%5 min
20252150%10%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008191237%1493%28 min
200915847%560%21 min
2010211148%1070%20 min
2011322522%2778%18 min
2012302517%1587%19 min
2013403513%3083%27 min
2014171229%580%6 min
201525238%20100%20 min
201624228%2361%24 min
2017292610%2391%14 min
2018151313%875%7 min
2019342818%2273%15 min
2020302227%1385%19 min
2021292224%1753%11 min
2022282414%1765%13 min
2023181517%2861%21 min
2024372727%5088%18 min
2025282511%3789%20 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%1100%14 min
200920100%10%
2012220%475%15 min
20134250%863%94 min
2014110%7100%80 min
20166350%520%38 min
2017121017%1694%157 min
20188625%1173%64 min
20198713%1486%31 min
2020330%1100%63 min
2021550%1100%354 min
2022220%1100%107 min
202320100%0
2024660%560%24 min
20257614%989%105 min

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 12, 8:27 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Sep 12, 6:14 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ2 hr
Sep 3, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ66 min
Sep 3, 9:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ24 min
Sep 3, 8:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Sep 3, 7:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ37 min
Sep 3, 6:57 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ6 hr
Sep 3, 6:53 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZ37 min
Sep 3, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPBZ44 min
Sep 3, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ24 min
Sep 3, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPBZ41 min
Aug 20, 1:51 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr

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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.