Alert archive / U.S. Virgin Islands / Flash Flood Warnings

Flash Flood Warnings in U.S. Virgin Islands, 2022

7 flash flood warnings in 2022. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Flash Flood Warnings
7
Busiest month
September3 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
September 30, 20222 flash flood warnings

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 5 flash flood warnings covering U.S. Virgin Islands in 2022 had a flash flood report inside them; 1 of 1 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 124 minutes after it went out.

U.S. Virgin Islands, 2022

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings5180%1100%124 min

Each office's whole area, 2022

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS JSJ: flash flood warnings894648%36144%178 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
Sep 18, 7:25 AM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ6 hr
Sep 29, 7:11 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatJSJ3 hr
Sep 29, 10:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr
Oct 26, 11:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ6 hr
Oct 26, 11:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ6 hr
Nov 5, 7:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ5 hr
Nov 5, 8:27 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningJSJ3 hr

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.