Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Indiana County

Weather alerts in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 2009

44 weather alerts in 2009, 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
44
Warnings
12
Watches
5
Advisories
2
Busiest month
August10 alerts
Busiest day
May 16, 20094 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, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10550%250%24 min
Flash flood warnings20100%0

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings140100%0
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings1156643%11978%25 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings9633%1191%72 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 6, 5:17 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Jan 10, 6:33 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Jan 28, 12:31 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Jan 28, 7:53 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC5 hr
Feb 11, 5:32 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Feb 11, 5:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Feb 11, 7:26 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ64 min
Feb 11, 8:00 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Feb 11, 8:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Apr 24, 9:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ36 min
Apr 24, 9:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ37 min
May 16, 12:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
May 16, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 16, 3:55 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
May 16, 6:29 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 24, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ40 min
May 28, 4:54 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Jun 9, 11:48 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jun 11, 2:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Jun 17, 3:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 17, 10:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Jun 20, 2:47 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ58 min
Jun 20, 3:14 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 25, 9:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ52 min
Jul 11, 10:31 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Jul 11, 7:06 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jul 17, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ44 min
Jul 21, 1:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jul 25, 3:05 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 26, 12:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 10, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 10, 7:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ3 hr
Aug 11, 12:39 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 12, 12:36 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Aug 12, 3:17 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ3 hr
Aug 18, 2:32 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Aug 19, 1:21 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Aug 20, 6:20 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Aug 20, 6:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Aug 20, 10:40 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Dec 9, 1:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ53 min
Dec 9, 1:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ31 min
Dec 13, 5:16 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Dec 25, 7:50 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 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.