Alert archive / Washington / Lincoln County

Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Washington, 2020

69 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 69
Warnings: 15
Watches: 6
Advisories: 41
Busiest month: May14 alerts
Busiest day: May 31, 20206 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, 2020

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	0			0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	2	2	0%	4	75%	17 min
Flash flood warnings	0			0

Each office's whole area, 2020

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Spokane, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings	20	13	35%	49	47%	15 min
NWS Spokane, WA: flash flood warnings	1	0	100%	4	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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 3, 1:40 PM PST	Wind Advisory	OTX	24 hr
Jan 5, 3:16 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	25 hr
Jan 8, 2:42 PM PST	Winter Storm Watch	OTX	25 hr
Jan 9, 3:15 PM PST	Winter Storm Warning	OTX	51 hr
Jan 9, 3:15 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	43 hr
Jan 11, 2:59 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	37 hr
Jan 13, 5:10 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	3 days
Jan 15, 2:36 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	31 hr
Jan 17, 2:18 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	25 hr
Jan 20, 2:57 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	68 hr
Jan 30, 2:34 PM PST	High Wind Watch	OTX	24 hr
Jan 31, 2:18 PM PST	Wind Advisory	OTX	28 hr
Feb 3, 2:31 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	51 hr
Feb 23, 2:26 AM PST	Wind Advisory	OTX	28 hr
Mar 12, 3:29 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	44 hr
Mar 12, 3:50 PM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	OTX	43 hr
Mar 13, 3:43 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	34 hr
Mar 29, 2:29 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	28 hr
Apr 10, 8:13 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	35 hr
May 2, 10:26 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	9 hr
May 2, 1:19 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 2, 6:04 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	41 min
May 5, 2:38 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	40 hr
May 18, 1:09 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	51 min
May 18, 1:20 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	115 min
May 30, 3:13 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 30, 4:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 30, 6:53 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	37 min
May 30, 7:25 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OTX	50 min
May 30, 7:29 PM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	OTX	32 min
May 30, 7:45 PM PDT	Areal Flood Warning	OTX	60 min
May 30, 8:06 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
May 31, 3:15 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	OTX	3 hr
Jun 11, 3:37 PM PDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Jun 13, 4:12 AM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	48 min
Jul 26, 2:54 AM PDT	Heat Advisory	OTX	6 days
Jul 28, 2:34 PM PDT	Excessive Heat Warning	OTX	3 days
Aug 13, 2:13 PM PDT	Excessive Heat Watch	OTX	24 hr
Aug 14, 2:37 PM PDT	Excessive Heat Warning	OTX	4 days
Sep 6, 2:50 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	38 hr
Sep 6, 1:57 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	30 hr
Sep 7, 1:44 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	OTX	18 hr
Sep 7, 12:50 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	85 min
Sep 12, 2:58 PM PDT	Dense Smoke Advisory	OTX	14 hr
Sep 25, 5:06 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	3 hr
Sep 25, 6:11 PM PDT	Special Weather Statement	OTX	49 min
Oct 12, 2:38 AM PDT	High Wind Watch	OTX	24 hr
Oct 13, 2:42 AM PDT	High Wind Warning	OTX	18 hr
Oct 13, 4:52 PM PDT	Dust Storm Warning	OTX	53 min
Oct 15, 2:56 PM PDT	Wind Advisory	OTX	30 hr
Oct 21, 2:50 PM PDT	Winter Storm Watch	OTX	24 hr
Oct 22, 2:52 PM PDT	Winter Storm Warning	OTX	43 hr
Oct 22, 2:52 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	32 hr
Oct 30, 11:26 AM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	48 min
Oct 30, 12:14 PM PDT	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	5 hr
Nov 3, 4:43 AM PST	Dense Fog Advisory	OTX	4 hr
Nov 8, 5:52 AM PST	Blowing Dust Advisory	OTX	6 hr
Nov 9, 2:09 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	48 hr
Nov 11, 2:43 AM PST	Dense Fog Advisory	OTX	6 hr
Nov 12, 2:17 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	24 hr
Nov 13, 11:38 AM PST	Wind Advisory	OTX	16 hr
Nov 30, 2:32 PM PST	Air Stagnation Advisory	OTX	9 days
Dec 4, 7:15 PM PST	Dense Fog Advisory	OTX	16 hr
Dec 9, 10:18 AM PST	Dense Fog Advisory	OTX	3 hr
Dec 10, 2:03 PM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	23 hr
Dec 21, 4:07 AM PST	Wind Advisory	OTX	24 hr
Dec 25, 2:39 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	36 hr
Dec 29, 4:03 AM PST	Winter Storm Warning	OTX	58 hr
Dec 29, 4:03 AM PST	Winter Weather Advisory	OTX	58 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	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	1
Mesoscale Discussion	4
Special Weather Statement	3
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	2
Areal Flood Advisory	2
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	4
Winter Storm Watch	2
Winter Weather Advisory	15
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	2
Excessive Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Dust Storm Warning	3
High Wind Warning	2
High Wind Watch	2
Blowing Dust Advisory	6
Wind Advisory	11
Fog and smoke
Air Stagnation Advisory	1
Dense Fog Advisory	4
Dense Smoke Advisory	1

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.