Alert archive / Washington / Skamania County

Weather alerts in Skamania County, Washington, 2013

20 weather alerts in 2013, 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
20
Warnings
10
Watches
5
Advisories
1
Busiest month
August12 alerts
Busiest day
August 10, 20132 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Skamania County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Portland, OR: tornado warnings050%
NWS Portland, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings12467%1267%13 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 28, 1:42 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
May 13, 1:35 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Jul 14, 2:58 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT24 hr
Jul 15, 2:39 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT42 hr
Jul 30, 1:50 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT57 hr
Jul 31, 8:22 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW15 hr
Aug 6, 1:43 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT67 hr
Aug 7, 8:11 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT5 days
Aug 8, 2:58 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW18 hr
Aug 9, 8:34 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW48 hr
Aug 9, 9:05 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR25 min
Aug 10, 1:32 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 10, 5:08 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Aug 11, 3:23 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT14 hr
Aug 12, 5:15 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT24 hr
Aug 19, 1:24 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDT50 hr
Aug 21, 3:07 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT41 hr
Aug 24, 9:08 AM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT44 hr
Sep 1, 2:37 PM PDTRed Flag WarningPDT4 days
Sep 29, 6:19 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQR6 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.