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
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Flash flood warnings | 4 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS JSJ: tornado warnings | 2 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| NWS JSJ: severe thunderstorm warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 19 | 21% | 4 min |
| NWS JSJ: flash flood warnings | 29 | 9 | 69% | 23 | 61% | 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 7:54 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Mar 15, 9:23 PM CDT | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 25 hr | |
| Mar 27, 3:10 AM CDT | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 66 hr | |
| Mar 28, 12:59 AM CDT | Coastal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 36 hr | |
| Apr 6, 3:21 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 23 hr | |
| Apr 7, 2:36 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 24 hr | |
| Apr 8, 2:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 13 hr | |
| May 2, 3:17 AM CDT | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 38 hr | |
| May 8, 1:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| May 10, 6:23 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 4 hr | |
| May 11, 3:22 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 40 hr | |
| Jun 15, 4:52 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 28 hr | |
| Jul 7, 3:00 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 25 hr | |
| Jul 7, 3:00 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Jul 8, 3:48 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Jul 9, 3:55 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 26 hr | |
| Jul 10, 3:42 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Jul 31, 3:45 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 24 hr | |
| Jul 31, 10:00 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | NHC | 6 hr | |
| Jul 31, 10:15 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Aug 1, 2:26 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Aug 1, 4:00 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | NHC | 39 hr | |
| Aug 1, 4:22 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | JSJ | 42 hr | |
| Aug 21, 8:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 3 days | |
| Aug 22, 5:30 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Aug 22, 8:37 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 4 hr | |
| Aug 22, 11:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Aug 22, 9:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 99 min | |
| Aug 22, 11:01 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 119 min | |
| Aug 23, 12:05 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 115 min | |
| Aug 23, 12:47 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 2 hr | |
| Aug 28, 11:35 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Sep 25, 1:32 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 57 hr | |
| Oct 12, 2:59 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 56 hr | |
| Oct 12, 12:30 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | NHC | 4 hr | |
| Oct 12, 1:16 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | JSJ | 4 hr | |
| Oct 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Hurricane Watch | NHC | 33 hr | |
| Oct 12, 4:00 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | NHC | 36 hr | |
| Oct 12, 5:45 PM CDT | Hurricane Watch | JSJ | 32 hr | |
| Oct 12, 5:45 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | JSJ | 41 hr | |
| Oct 14, 11:52 AM CDT | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 9 hr | |
| Nov 3, 2:05 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 72 hr | |
| Nov 4, 5:46 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 34 hr | |
| Nov 4, 7:56 AM CST | Coastal Flood Watch | JSJ | 28 hr | |
| Nov 4, 2:46 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Nov 6, 5:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 60 hr | |
| Nov 7, 5:28 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Nov 7, 5:43 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Nov 7, 10:33 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 117 min | |
| Nov 7, 11:30 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Nov 7, 12:28 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Nov 7, 1:27 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 11 hr | |
| Nov 8, 12:11 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Nov 8, 12:24 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Dec 9, 2:26 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 3 days | |
| Dec 10, 2:55 AM CST | Coastal Flood Watch | JSJ | 11 hr | |
| Dec 10, 1:52 PM CST | Coastal Flood Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Dec 10, 1:52 PM CST | Coastal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 22 hr | |
| Dec 10, 1:52 PM CST | High Surf Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Dec 15, 2:16 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Dec 26, 12:26 PM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 48 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 6 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 16 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 5 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 6 |
| Tropical | |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 4 |
| Hurricane Watch | 2 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| Coastal Flood Warning | 1 |
| High Surf Warning | 1 |
| Coastal Flood Watch | 2 |
| Coastal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| High Surf Advisory | 8 |
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.