Alert archive / Washington / Garfield County
Weather alerts in Garfield County, Washington, 2023
48 weather alerts in 2023, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Garfield County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 48
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 18
- Busiest month
- July11 alerts
- Busiest day
- February 20, 20232 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Garfield County, 2023
| 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 | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2023
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Spokane, WA: tornado warnings | 0 | 2 | 0% | |||
| NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 36 | 19 | 47% | 116 | 57% | 16 min |
| NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings | 18 | 4 | 78% | 49 | 49% | 32 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, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 26, 8:02 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 33 hr |
| Feb 4, 4:36 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 47 hr |
| Feb 6, 2:56 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 35 hr |
| Feb 12, 11:34 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 50 hr |
| Feb 19, 1:30 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Feb 20, 1:32 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:16 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 44 hr |
| Feb 28, 7:20 PM PST | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 55 min |
| Mar 9, 3:48 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 54 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:46 PM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 56 hr |
| Apr 18, 2:57 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | 30 hr |
| Apr 19, 10:45 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | 22 hr |
| May 3, 8:51 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | 3 days |
| May 8, 1:30 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 30 min |
| May 15, 2:12 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 33 min |
| May 16, 2:26 AM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | 18 hr |
| Jun 9, 2:34 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 41 min |
| Jun 30, 12:55 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 34 hr |
| Jul 7, 2:33 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 65 hr |
| Jul 9, 2:48 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | PDT | 29 hr |
| Jul 9, 3:02 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 29 hr |
| Jul 10, 11:48 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 27 min |
| Jul 10, 12:47 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 1:45 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 61 hr |
| Jul 13, 1:57 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 3 days |
| Jul 15, 2:55 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 54 hr |
| Jul 19, 2:01 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 54 hr |
| Jul 22, 6:04 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 32 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:49 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 33 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:15 PM PDT | Excessive Heat Watch | OTX | 48 hr |
| Aug 13, 11:02 AM PDT | Excessive Heat Warning | OTX | 4 days |
| Aug 15, 2:12 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:12 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 31 hr |
| Aug 16, 2:12 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 55 hr |
| Aug 19, 12:59 PM PDT | Flood Watch | OTX | 3 days |
| Aug 26, 5:11 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:52 AM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 12 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:31 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Sep 15, 1:40 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | 23 hr |
| Sep 16, 12:13 PM PDT | Red Flag Warning | OTX | 32 hr |
| Oct 25, 10:04 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 18 hr |
| Nov 9, 1:56 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 53 hr |
| Nov 16, 1:43 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 8 hr |
| Nov 16, 10:52 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 13 hr |
| Nov 28, 5:20 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Nov 30, 4:10 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 3 days |
| Dec 1, 2:24 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 37 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:46 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 46 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 1 |
| Special Weather Statement | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 7 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 9 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 3 |
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.