Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Indiana County

Weather alerts in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 2012

112 weather alerts in 2012, 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
112
Warnings
37
Watches
6
Advisories
4
Busiest month
July42 alerts
Busiest day
July 26, 201213 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 2 tornado warnings covering Indiana County in 2012 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 33 minutes after it went out.

Indiana County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings2150%1100%33 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings30287%1080%29 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings8275%1164%18 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings20916521%50280%26 min
NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings131023%4680%50 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 17, 6:16 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ59 min
Jan 21, 12:59 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Jan 23, 3:26 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jan 23, 5:13 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ47 min
Mar 4, 1:56 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ64 min
Mar 4, 6:00 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ90 min
Mar 5, 7:34 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ56 min
Mar 5, 8:37 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ53 min
Mar 5, 9:49 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ56 min
Mar 28, 9:16 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ44 min
Mar 28, 9:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ41 min
Mar 28, 10:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ45 min
Mar 28, 10:23 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 30, 5:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ26 min
Apr 26, 5:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ17 min
May 2, 4:56 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 2, 5:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ24 min
May 3, 3:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ66 min
May 3, 5:04 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ56 min
May 4, 1:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 4, 7:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ27 min
May 7, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ61 min
May 7, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ54 min
May 7, 6:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ54 min
May 27, 1:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 27, 1:41 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
May 27, 4:12 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
May 27, 4:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ47 min
May 27, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ39 min
May 27, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ64 min
May 27, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ59 min
May 27, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ18 min
May 27, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ35 min
May 27, 6:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ78 min
May 29, 10:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
May 29, 1:25 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
May 29, 1:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ36 min
May 29, 1:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
May 29, 2:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ30 min
Jun 1, 5:12 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZ48 min
Jun 1, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPBZ26 min
Jun 1, 5:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ34 min
Jun 7, 2:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ35 min
Jun 7, 3:10 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ35 min
Jun 12, 5:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ29 min
Jun 12, 6:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ30 min
Jun 12, 6:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ40 min
Jun 29, 12:45 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Jun 29, 1:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Jul 3, 2:21 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ54 min
Jul 4, 11:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ39 min
Jul 4, 11:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Jul 7, 1:48 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
Jul 7, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Jul 7, 3:57 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 7, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ44 min
Jul 7, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ39 min
Jul 7, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ44 min
Jul 7, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ43 min
Jul 15, 12:47 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ43 min
Jul 18, 10:19 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ56 min
Jul 18, 10:25 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 18, 11:56 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ64 min
Jul 18, 1:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 18, 2:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ64 min
Jul 18, 3:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ23 min
Jul 19, 3:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ56 min
Jul 19, 3:42 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ2 hr
Jul 20, 6:02 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ3 hr
Jul 24, 8:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ46 min
Jul 24, 11:48 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC87 min
Jul 26, 4:05 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ55 min
Jul 26, 4:31 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Jul 26, 12:26 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 26, 1:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC9 hr
Jul 26, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ69 min
Jul 26, 3:37 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Jul 26, 4:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ58 min
Jul 26, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ59 min
Jul 26, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ66 min
Jul 26, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ51 min
Jul 26, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ47 min
Jul 26, 6:34 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Jul 26, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZ49 min
Jul 26, 10:08 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ11 hr
Jul 27, 5:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ57 min
Jul 27, 9:50 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ5 hr
Jul 28, 3:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ50 min
Jul 28, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ40 min
Jul 31, 2:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ52 min
Jul 31, 3:03 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ42 min
Aug 5, 5:52 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPBZ3 hr
Aug 10, 12:49 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Sep 4, 7:56 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ34 min
Sep 7, 3:19 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ26 min
Sep 7, 6:38 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Sep 8, 5:00 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Sep 8, 5:48 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ57 min
Sep 8, 10:06 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ54 min
Sep 8, 10:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ66 min
Sep 22, 6:31 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC119 min
Sep 22, 8:05 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ40 min
Sep 27, 6:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ52 min
Oct 29, 11:32 AM EDTRiver Flood WatchPBZ11 hr
Oct 29, 6:00 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningPBZ18 hr
Oct 29, 10:14 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningPBZ21 hr
Nov 24, 6:54 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ2 hr
Nov 24, 7:00 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ2 hr
Nov 24, 2:46 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ89 min
Nov 24, 4:16 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ44 min
Dec 10, 3:15 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementPBZ60 min
Dec 26, 11:40 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 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.