Alert archive / Washington / Skamania County

Weather alerts in Skamania County, Washington, 2008

30 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Skamania County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
30
Warnings
16
Watches
4
Advisories
2
Busiest month
December8 alerts
Busiest day
January 10, 20083 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 1 tornado warnings covering Skamania County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.

Skamania County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings110%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings70100%10%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Portland, OR: tornado warnings110%967%11 min
NWS Portland, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings34294%1217%21 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 10, 12:25 PM PSTTornado WarningPQR20 min
Jan 10, 12:58 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR20 min
Jan 10, 1:57 PM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR21 min
May 24, 7:29 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR38 min
May 24, 8:06 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR39 min
Jun 29, 4:25 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jun 29, 6:27 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR18 min
Jul 2, 11:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR40 min
Jul 2, 11:42 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR34 min
Jul 21, 9:18 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT35 hr
Aug 4, 2:57 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT48 hr
Aug 5, 3:00 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT3 days
Aug 15, 8:36 AM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW7 hr
Aug 15, 3:01 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT4 days
Aug 15, 3:50 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW28 hr
Aug 17, 4:01 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW43 hr
Aug 17, 4:10 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 14, 2:50 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW24 hr
Sep 14, 2:55 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT18 hr
Sep 15, 8:23 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW71 hr
Sep 15, 8:38 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT62 hr
Nov 12, 5:23 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQR6 hr
Dec 17, 8:33 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Dec 20, 3:32 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Dec 20, 8:25 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Dec 21, 3:17 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Dec 27, 1:08 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningPQR6 hr
Dec 27, 12:26 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Dec 27, 6:46 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQR17 hr
Dec 29, 9:53 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 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.