Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Indiana County
Weather alerts in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, 2014
79 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 79
- Warnings
- 19
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 3
- Busiest month
- June27 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 11, 20147 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, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 18 | 16 | 11% | 34 | 82% | 40 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: tornado warnings | 9 | 2 | 78% | 6 | 67% | 6 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 147 | 106 | 28% | 399 | 80% | 22 min |
| NWS Pittsburgh, PA: flash flood warnings | 15 | 10 | 33% | 31 | 87% | 51 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 2:08 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 52 min |
| Jan 11, 4:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 2 hr |
| Jan 25, 4:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 2 hr |
| Jan 25, 6:08 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 67 min |
| Jan 25, 11:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 93 min |
| Jan 27, 8:45 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 45 min |
| Feb 16, 6:30 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Feb 27, 10:38 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 67 min |
| Feb 27, 11:44 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 61 min |
| Apr 8, 7:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 50 min |
| Apr 22, 2:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 54 min |
| May 13, 1:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 40 min |
| May 14, 1:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| May 14, 5:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| May 14, 7:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 15, 11:04 AM EDT | River Flood Watch | PBZ | 21 hr |
| May 22, 1:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 45 min |
| May 22, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 41 min |
| May 22, 11:49 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 27, 1:43 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| May 27, 2:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 22 min |
| Jun 3, 12:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jun 8, 11:37 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jun 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 8, 4:51 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 8, 6:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 44 min |
| Jun 11, 1:32 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Jun 11, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 11, 6:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 40 min |
| Jun 11, 6:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 7:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 46 min |
| Jun 11, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 40 min |
| Jun 13, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 60 min |
| Jun 13, 2:16 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 59 min |
| Jun 13, 2:56 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 61 min |
| Jun 16, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 46 min |
| Jun 17, 11:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 47 min |
| Jun 18, 12:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 46 min |
| Jun 18, 1:08 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 52 min |
| Jun 18, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 8:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 51 min |
| Jun 18, 9:06 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 54 min |
| Jun 18, 10:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 55 min |
| Jun 24, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 46 min |
| Jun 25, 1:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jul 3, 11:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 21 min |
| Jul 7, 2:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jul 7, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 11:29 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Jul 8, 1:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 4:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 27 min |
| Jul 9, 12:53 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 12:37 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jul 13, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 27, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jul 27, 8:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jul 30, 8:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 11:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | PBZ | 6 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 31 min |
| Aug 12, 12:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 42 min |
| Aug 12, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 95 min |
| Aug 12, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 48 min |
| Aug 12, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 38 min |
| Aug 12, 6:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PBZ | 55 min |
| Sep 2, 2:25 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 5:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PBZ | 28 min |
| Sep 21, 1:20 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Nov 6, 2:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 46 min |
| Dec 12, 9:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 3 hr |
| Dec 24, 9:00 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | PBZ | 30 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 18 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 22 |
| Special Weather Statement | 27 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| River Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
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.