Alert archive / U.S. Virgin Islands

Weather alerts in U.S. Virgin Islands, 2014

61 weather alerts in 2014, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.

Alerts
61
Warnings
15
Watches
20
Advisories
26
Busiest month
August14 alerts
Busiest day
October 12, 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.

U.S. Virgin Islands, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings00
Flash flood warnings40100%10%

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS JSJ: tornado warnings20100%0
NWS JSJ: severe thunderstorm warnings2150%1921%4 min
NWS JSJ: flash flood warnings29969%2361%78 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 6, 7:54 AM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ12 hr
Mar 15, 9:23 PM CDTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ25 hr
Mar 27, 3:10 AM CDTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ66 hr
Mar 28, 12:59 AM CDTCoastal Flood AdvisoryJSJ36 hr
Apr 6, 3:21 AM CDTFire Weather WatchJSJ23 hr
Apr 7, 2:36 AM CDTFire Weather WatchJSJ24 hr
Apr 8, 2:41 AM CDTRed Flag WarningJSJ13 hr
May 2, 3:17 AM CDTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ38 hr
May 8, 1:02 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
May 10, 6:23 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ4 hr
May 11, 3:22 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchJSJ40 hr
Jun 15, 4:52 AM CDTFire Weather WatchJSJ28 hr
Jul 7, 3:00 AM CDTFire Weather WatchJSJ25 hr
Jul 7, 3:00 AM CDTRed Flag WarningJSJ14 hr
Jul 8, 3:48 AM CDTRed Flag WarningJSJ12 hr
Jul 9, 3:55 AM CDTFire Weather WatchJSJ26 hr
Jul 10, 3:42 AM CDTRed Flag WarningJSJ12 hr
Jul 31, 3:45 AM CDTFire Weather WatchJSJ24 hr
Jul 31, 10:00 PM CDTTropical Storm WatchNHC6 hr
Jul 31, 10:15 PM CDTTropical Storm WatchJSJ6 hr
Aug 1, 2:26 AM CDTRed Flag WarningJSJ14 hr
Aug 1, 4:00 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningNHC39 hr
Aug 1, 4:22 AM CDTTropical Storm WarningJSJ42 hr
Aug 21, 8:35 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchJSJ3 days
Aug 22, 5:30 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Aug 22, 8:37 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ4 hr
Aug 22, 11:45 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Aug 22, 9:21 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ99 min
Aug 22, 11:01 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ119 min
Aug 23, 12:05 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ115 min
Aug 23, 12:47 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ2 hr
Aug 28, 11:35 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Sep 25, 1:32 PM CDTFlash Flood WatchJSJ57 hr
Oct 12, 2:59 AM CDTFlash Flood WatchJSJ56 hr
Oct 12, 12:30 PM CDTTropical Storm WatchNHC4 hr
Oct 12, 1:16 PM CDTTropical Storm WatchJSJ4 hr
Oct 12, 4:00 PM CDTHurricane WatchNHC33 hr
Oct 12, 4:00 PM CDTTropical Storm WarningNHC36 hr
Oct 12, 5:45 PM CDTHurricane WatchJSJ32 hr
Oct 12, 5:45 PM CDTTropical Storm WarningJSJ41 hr
Oct 14, 11:52 AM CDTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ9 hr
Nov 3, 2:05 AM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ72 hr
Nov 4, 5:46 AM CSTFlash Flood WatchJSJ34 hr
Nov 4, 7:56 AM CSTCoastal Flood WatchJSJ28 hr
Nov 4, 2:46 PM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Nov 6, 5:45 PM CSTFlash Flood WatchJSJ60 hr
Nov 7, 5:28 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ6 hr
Nov 7, 5:43 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ6 hr
Nov 7, 10:33 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningJSJ117 min
Nov 7, 11:30 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Nov 7, 12:28 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJSJ12 hr
Nov 7, 1:27 PM CSTFlash Flood WarningJSJ11 hr
Nov 8, 12:11 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Nov 8, 12:24 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ3 hr
Dec 9, 2:26 AM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ3 days
Dec 10, 2:55 AM CSTCoastal Flood WatchJSJ11 hr
Dec 10, 1:52 PM CSTCoastal Flood WarningJSJ12 hr
Dec 10, 1:52 PM CSTCoastal Flood AdvisoryJSJ22 hr
Dec 10, 1:52 PM CSTHigh Surf WarningJSJ12 hr
Dec 15, 2:16 AM CSTAreal Flood AdvisoryJSJ6 hr
Dec 26, 12:26 PM CSTHigh Surf AdvisoryJSJ48 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.