Alert archive / Washington / Adams County

Weather alerts in Adams County, Washington, 2010

48 weather alerts in 2010, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Adams County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
48
Warnings
9
Watches
4
Advisories
32
Busiest month
November12 alerts
Busiest day
November 28, 20103 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

Adams County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings010%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Spokane, WA: tornado warnings10100%50%
NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings16663%2273%23 min
NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings30100%110%
NWS Pendleton, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings201430%3168%16 min
NWS Pendleton, OR: flash flood warnings6350%3100%29823 min
NWS Portland, OR: tornado warnings10100%30%
NWS Portland, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings20100%50%
NWS Portland, OR: flash flood warnings060%
NWS Seattle, WA: tornado warnings020%
NWS Seattle, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings10100%170%
NWS Seattle, WA: flash flood warnings10100%0

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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 8, 4:10 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX16 days
Jan 10, 2:45 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX36 hr
Feb 17, 5:21 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX5 hr
Mar 28, 3:11 PM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX29 hr
Apr 1, 3:02 PM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX30 hr
Apr 2, 6:22 AM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX9 hr
Apr 7, 3:35 AM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX40 hr
May 1, 3:36 AM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX17 hr
May 1, 2:36 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchOTX24 hr
May 2, 2:43 PM PDTHigh Wind WarningOTX31 hr
May 3, 9:48 AM PDTDust Storm WarningOTX11 hr
May 17, 12:48 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 19, 2:58 PM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX9 hr
May 19, 6:50 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementOTX55 min
May 23, 2:34 PM PDTFreeze WarningOTX17 hr
Jul 4, 3:02 AM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX19 hr
Jul 11, 3:01 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchOTX8 hr
Jul 11, 11:08 AM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX35 hr
Jul 12, 2:53 PM PDTDust Storm WarningOTX7 hr
Jul 22, 10:49 AM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryOTX9 hr
Aug 25, 2:52 PM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryOTX30 hr
Aug 25, 9:01 PM PDTWind AdvisoryOTX24 hr
Sep 3, 2:38 PM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryOTX30 hr
Sep 19, 3:55 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Nov 12, 6:43 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX3 hr
Nov 12, 9:41 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX6 hr
Nov 15, 3:38 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningOTX30 hr
Nov 15, 3:38 AM PSTWind AdvisoryOTX30 hr
Nov 21, 11:52 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX25 hr
Nov 22, 12:44 PM PSTBlizzard WarningOTX21 hr
Nov 25, 10:23 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX65 hr
Nov 28, 4:11 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX8 hr
Nov 28, 12:14 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX23 hr
Nov 28, 2:48 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX13 hr
Nov 29, 4:06 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTX54 hr
Nov 29, 4:06 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX54 hr
Dec 2, 6:49 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX15 hr
Dec 7, 11:17 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX27 hr
Dec 10, 2:19 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchOTX14 hr
Dec 10, 2:19 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTX48 hr
Dec 11, 4:31 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX25 hr
Dec 17, 12:14 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX33 hr
Dec 19, 3:58 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX30 hr
Dec 22, 10:53 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX5 hr
Dec 23, 2:58 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryOTX7 hr
Dec 27, 4:49 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningOTX70 hr
Dec 27, 4:49 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX25 hr
Dec 28, 6:36 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryOTX33 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.