Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Indiana County

Weather alerts in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 2008

59 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Indiana County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
59
Warnings
22
Watches
7
Advisories
7
Busiest month
June29 alerts
Busiest day
June 16, 20089 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Indiana County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings191047%4100%35 min
Flash flood warnings10100%0

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, 7:36 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
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
Feb 12, 7:41 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Mar 3, 10:25 PM ESTRiver Flood WatchPBZ32 hr
Mar 4, 11:48 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ3 hr
Mar 4, 10:01 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ44 min
Mar 8, 6:16 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Apr 11, 9:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ35 min
Apr 26, 2:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
May 31, 4:10 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 31, 7:27 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 5, 2:34 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Jun 10, 1:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 16, 10:19 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 16, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC10 hr
Jun 16, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ62 min
Jun 16, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ49 min
Jun 16, 2:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 16, 3:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ31 min
Jun 16, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ44 min
Jun 16, 5:19 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ72 min
Jun 16, 5:53 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Jun 20, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ58 min
Jun 22, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 23, 11:10 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 23, 2:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Jun 28, 6:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Jun 28, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jun 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ61 min
Jun 28, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ35 min
Jun 29, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 29, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ57 min
Jun 29, 4:14 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ53 min
Jun 29, 6:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ56 min
Jun 29, 7:13 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jun 29, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ65 min
Jun 29, 8:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ77 min
Jun 30, 5:47 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ3 hr
Jun 30, 6:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ2 hr
Jul 20, 11:29 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Jul 20, 12:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jul 20, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ57 min
Jul 20, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ56 min
Jul 22, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ26 min
Jul 23, 1:28 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC62 min
Jul 23, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ63 min
Jul 23, 2:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ60 min
Jul 26, 4:53 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Sep 9, 4:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ44 min
Dec 11, 12:04 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Dec 11, 1:52 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Dec 19, 4:50 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ6 hr
Dec 19, 8:37 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningPBZ7 hr
Dec 19, 11:47 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningPBZ10 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.

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.