Alert archive / U.S. Virgin Islands
Weather alerts in U.S. Virgin Islands, 2015
69 weather alerts in 2015, 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
- 69
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 13
- Advisories
- 21
- Busiest month
- November15 alerts
- Busiest day
- February 14, 20154 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, 2015
| 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 | 5 | 1 | 80% | 4 | 25% | 129 min |
Each office's whole area, 2015
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS JSJ: severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 19 | 0% | |
| NWS JSJ: flash flood warnings | 17 | 6 | 65% | 32 | 53% | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 7:27 PM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 25 hr | |
| Feb 8, 1:48 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 26 hr | |
| Feb 11, 8:45 PM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 71 hr | |
| Feb 13, 6:16 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 5 hr | |
| Feb 13, 11:36 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Feb 14, 12:25 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Feb 14, 3:17 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Feb 16, 2:56 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 63 hr | |
| Feb 21, 2:43 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 16 hr | |
| Feb 25, 2:17 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 24 hr | |
| Feb 26, 2:08 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 24 hr | |
| Feb 26, 2:08 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 13 hr | |
| Feb 27, 2:23 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Mar 7, 7:16 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 7 hr | |
| Mar 9, 1:31 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 27 hr | |
| Mar 10, 4:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 11 hr | |
| Mar 11, 3:31 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 13 hr | |
| Apr 14, 4:54 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 22 hr | |
| Apr 15, 2:51 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 24 hr | |
| Apr 15, 10:16 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Apr 16, 3:13 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| May 6, 4:57 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | JSJ | 9 hr | |
| May 16, 12:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 2 hr | |
| May 16, 2:29 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 61 min | |
| Jul 2, 5:06 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Jul 4, 4:12 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 15 hr | |
| Jul 5, 4:49 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Aug 23, 10:00 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | NHC | 12 hr | |
| Aug 23, 10:03 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | JSJ | 13 hr | |
| Aug 24, 5:30 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 19 hr | |
| Aug 25, 4:55 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Aug 25, 10:00 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | NHC | 6 hr | |
| Aug 25, 11:20 PM CDT | Tropical Storm Watch | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Aug 26, 4:00 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | NHC | 57 hr | |
| Aug 26, 4:22 AM CDT | Tropical Storm Warning | JSJ | 58 hr | |
| Aug 27, 10:03 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 25 hr | |
| Aug 27, 7:47 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Aug 28, 1:57 PM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Aug 29, 4:29 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 13 hr | |
| Sep 19, 10:43 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 2 hr | |
| Oct 3, 8:40 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 5 hr | |
| Oct 8, 5:02 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Oct 21, 8:14 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 23 hr | |
| Oct 21, 3:21 PM CDT | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 16 hr | |
| Oct 22, 7:19 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 12 hr | |
| Oct 22, 7:19 AM CDT | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 5 hr | |
| Oct 25, 6:45 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | JSJ | 60 hr | |
| Oct 30, 3:31 AM CDT | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 15 hr | |
| Nov 7, 3:21 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 114 min | |
| Nov 8, 2:44 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 13 hr | |
| Nov 9, 3:52 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Nov 10, 3:53 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Nov 16, 2:24 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 14 hr | |
| Nov 20, 3:02 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 4 days | |
| Nov 20, 5:48 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 10 hr | |
| Nov 20, 8:51 PM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 69 hr | |
| Nov 26, 2:37 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 4 days | |
| Nov 27, 2:37 AM CST | High Surf Advisory | JSJ | 63 hr | |
| Nov 28, 3:10 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Nov 28, 4:17 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 6 hr | |
| Nov 28, 5:48 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 117 min | |
| Nov 28, 6:25 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 2 hr | |
| Nov 28, 10:16 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | JSJ | 59 min | |
| Dec 1, 7:59 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | JSJ | 3 hr | |
| Dec 14, 3:49 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 36 hr | |
| Dec 19, 3:21 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 24 hr | |
| Dec 20, 3:18 AM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 41 hr | |
| Dec 21, 8:24 PM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 72 hr | |
| Dec 24, 8:36 PM CST | Rip Current Statement | JSJ | 70 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 | 5 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 11 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 6 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 7 |
| Tropical | |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 2 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 4 |
| Coast and beach | |
| High Surf Advisory | 10 |
| Rip Current Statement | 22 |
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.