Alert archive / Washington / Lincoln County
Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Washington, 2009
66 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Lincoln County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 66
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 38
- Busiest month
- January12 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 13, 20094 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.
Lincoln County, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 1 | 0% | |||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 7 | 1 | 86% | 1 | 100% | 31 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 2 | 1 | 50% | 1 | 100% | 5 min |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Spokane, WA: tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 27 | 11 | 59% | 27 | 74% | 17 min |
| NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings | 7 | 3 | 57% | 6 | 67% | 20 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 3, 3:02 AM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 33 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:01 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 35 hr |
| Jan 4, 3:58 PM PST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 4, 10:04 PM PST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:56 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Jan 5, 4:08 PM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | 22 hr |
| Jan 6, 7:40 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 10 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:46 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 37 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:03 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 15 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:45 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 23 hr |
| Jan 13, 9:39 AM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 11 days |
| Jan 19, 10:36 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 12 hr |
| Feb 7, 11:04 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 11 hr |
| Feb 16, 3:54 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:57 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 13 hr |
| Feb 20, 5:29 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 6 hr |
| Feb 25, 3:08 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 24 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:14 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:50 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 31 hr |
| Mar 15, 6:02 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 14 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:42 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 24 hr |
| Mar 28, 9:29 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 25 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:20 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 27 hr |
| Apr 1, 3:42 AM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 49 hr |
| Apr 1, 8:20 PM PDT | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 33 hr |
| May 11, 1:43 PM PDT | Freeze Watch | OTX | 25 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:24 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 66 min |
| Jun 6, 3:45 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | 2 hr |
| Jun 13, 8:03 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 113 min |
| Jun 14, 5:11 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:10 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 5 hr |
| Jun 19, 7:27 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 48 min |
| Jun 19, 8:35 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 40 min |
| Jun 19, 10:14 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 100 min |
| Jul 12, 7:13 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 62 min |
| Jul 12, 8:48 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:27 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 48 min |
| Jul 12, 10:55 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jul 28, 4:01 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 59 min |
| Jul 28, 5:08 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 52 min |
| Jul 28, 5:49 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 6:19 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 41 min |
| Aug 6, 7:44 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | 107 min |
| Aug 21, 1:04 AM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 41 min |
| Sep 6, 4:33 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 27 min |
| Sep 20, 3:26 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | OTX | 30 hr |
| Oct 3, 3:41 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 39 hr |
| Oct 4, 8:42 AM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | OTX | 4 hr |
| Oct 4, 12:43 PM PDT | Dust Storm Warning | OTX | 6 hr |
| Oct 7, 3:30 PM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | OTX | 8 hr |
| Oct 8, 2:37 PM PDT | Dust Storm Warning | OTX | 24 hr |
| Oct 20, 6:41 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 5 hr |
| Oct 30, 5:45 AM PDT | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 4 hr |
| Nov 5, 2:23 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 26 hr |
| Nov 12, 7:05 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 8 hr |
| Nov 20, 9:55 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 18 hr |
| Nov 21, 4:01 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 28 hr |
| Nov 30, 4:14 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 6 hr |
| Dec 6, 2:59 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 16 hr |
| Dec 13, 2:30 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 14 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:48 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 47 hr |
| Dec 14, 4:48 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 47 hr |
| Dec 19, 4:55 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 6 hr |
| Dec 21, 6:23 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 6 hr |
| Dec 23, 3:18 PM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 7 days |
| Dec 30, 3:23 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 37 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 | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 10 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Dust Storm Warning | 2 |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 7 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Air Stagnation Advisory | 2 |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 13 |
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.