Alert archive / Washington / Lincoln County
Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Washington, 2014
74 weather alerts in 2014, 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 74
- Warnings
- 17
- Watches
- 8
- Advisories
- 41
- Busiest month
- August17 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 23, 20146 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Lincoln County, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 9 | 7 | 22% | 6 | 50% | 32 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 50% | 158 min |
Each office's whole area, 2014
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings | 42 | 30 | 29% | 150 | 75% | 26 min |
| NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings | 21 | 5 | 76% | 30 | 40% | 102 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 7, 12:12 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 16 hr |
| Jan 9, 2:51 PM PST | High Wind Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Jan 10, 9:05 AM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | 30 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:31 PM PST | High Wind Warning | OTX | 38 hr |
| Jan 10, 2:31 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 40 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:42 PM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 14 days |
| Jan 16, 5:18 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 5 hr |
| Jan 16, 9:53 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 13 hr |
| Jan 17, 5:45 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 16 hr |
| Jan 27, 3:22 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 49 hr |
| Jan 28, 3:12 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 3 days |
| Jan 28, 4:25 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 18 hr |
| Jan 29, 11:47 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 22 hr |
| Feb 3, 2:29 PM PST | Wind Chill Watch | OTX | 12 hr |
| Feb 4, 2:35 AM PST | Wind Chill Warning | OTX | 55 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:11 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Feb 8, 3:10 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 16 hr |
| Feb 10, 12:58 PM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Feb 11, 1:07 PM PST | Areal Flood Warning | OTX | 5 days |
| Feb 11, 1:09 PM PST | Areal Flood Warning | OTX | 5 days |
| Feb 12, 8:19 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 11 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:18 PM PST | Areal Flood Warning | OTX | 48 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:24 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 22 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:22 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 54 hr |
| Feb 19, 11:41 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 18 hr |
| Feb 22, 9:57 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 70 hr |
| Feb 28, 3:05 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | OTX | 24 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | OTX | 49 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:07 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 30 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:04 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 11 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:37 PM PST | Flood Watch | OTX | 43 hr |
| Mar 5, 10:30 AM PST | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 48 hr |
| Mar 16, 3:13 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 23 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:54 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 6 hr |
| Jun 27, 6:06 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 24 min |
| Jul 14, 3:12 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 53 hr |
| Jul 14, 4:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 38 min |
| Jul 14, 4:39 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Jul 23, 1:35 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jul 23, 2:56 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 34 min |
| Jul 23, 3:09 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 23, 4:00 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 45 min |
| Jul 23, 4:26 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 49 min |
| Jul 23, 4:40 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 35 min |
| Jul 27, 2:33 PM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 53 hr |
| Jul 30, 8:34 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | OTX | 35 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:54 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 51 min |
| Aug 12, 1:34 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:10 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 50 min |
| Aug 12, 5:11 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Aug 12, 5:49 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 56 min |
| Aug 12, 6:43 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 62 min |
| Aug 13, 2:48 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Aug 15, 2:46 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 4:24 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 4 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:22 AM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | OTX | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 5:53 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 4 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:23 AM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 2:40 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | OTX | 3 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:22 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 5:22 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 53 min |
| Aug 19, 5:27 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | OTX | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 5:49 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OTX | 41 min |
| Oct 11, 3:02 AM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | OTX | 17 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:57 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | OTX | 42 hr |
| Nov 6, 3:00 AM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 17 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:00 PM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 6 days |
| Nov 26, 11:36 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | OTX | 19 hr |
| Nov 27, 2:50 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 55 hr |
| Dec 4, 4:48 AM PST | Freezing Rain Advisory | OTX | 54 hr |
| Dec 12, 9:23 AM PST | Air Stagnation Advisory | OTX | 7 days |
| Dec 20, 6:00 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 22 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:11 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | OTX | 37 hr |
| Dec 28, 2:44 PM PST | Wind Advisory | OTX | 28 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.
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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.