Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Fayette County

Weather alerts in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 2008

56 weather alerts in 2008, 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 in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
56
Warnings
24
Watches
11
Advisories
5
Busiest month
June19 alerts
Busiest day
June 29, 20085 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Fayette County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings191237%1493%28 min
Flash flood warnings110%1100%14 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings8275%540%11 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings17910243%16983%23 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings231057%1883%65 min

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

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 9, 3:50 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Feb 1, 11:36 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ4 hr
Feb 6, 6:09 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Feb 12, 1:06 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Mar 3, 11:08 AM ESTRiver Flood WatchPBZ60 hr
Mar 3, 10:25 PM ESTRiver Flood WatchPBZ14 hr
Mar 4, 7:34 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Mar 4, 8:24 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningPBZ6 hr
Mar 4, 9:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ35 min
Mar 8, 6:16 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Mar 19, 8:41 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ4 hr
May 31, 4:10 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 31, 7:27 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 31, 10:20 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
May 31, 10:25 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 4, 7:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ43 min
Jun 10, 1:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 16, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 hr
Jun 16, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ40 min
Jun 16, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Jun 16, 7:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ42 min
Jun 16, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ66 min
Jun 16, 8:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ110 min
Jun 22, 12:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jun 22, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 23, 2:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 28, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 29, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 29, 4:14 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 29, 7:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jun 29, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ41 min
Jun 29, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ65 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ77 min
Jun 30, 11:01 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Jul 7, 1:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 8, 5:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jul 8, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Jul 20, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ57 min
Jul 20, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ56 min
Jul 20, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ53 min
Jul 20, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ59 min
Jul 21, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ57 min
Jul 21, 8:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ58 min
Jul 21, 9:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ55 min
Jul 22, 3:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Jul 23, 1:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Jul 30, 4:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ31 min
Jul 31, 5:33 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ2 hr
Jul 31, 7:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ67 min
Aug 2, 1:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ38 min
Aug 2, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Dec 16, 11:56 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Dec 19, 3:50 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ6 hr
Dec 19, 11:47 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningPBZ10 hr
Dec 20, 12:05 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningPBZ4 hr
Dec 24, 6:40 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ4 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.

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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.