Alert archive / Washington / Snohomish County

Weather alerts in Snohomish 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.

Snohomish County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
30
Warnings
17
Watches
6
Advisories
3
Busiest month
November18 alerts
Busiest day
November 7, 20088 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Snohomish County, 2008

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

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Seattle, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings100100%10%

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
Apr 18, 1:05 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
May 9, 8:20 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC40 min
May 16, 12:09 PM PDTFlood WatchSEW57 hr
Jul 3, 10:14 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSEW31 min
Aug 17, 4:01 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW43 hr
Sep 14, 2:50 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW24 hr
Sep 15, 8:23 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW71 hr
Nov 4, 10:13 PM PSTFlood WatchSEW3 days
Nov 6, 5:14 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW12 hr
Nov 6, 9:46 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW7 hr
Nov 6, 9:46 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW7 hr
Nov 7, 7:38 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW25 hr
Nov 7, 10:56 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW24 hr
Nov 7, 10:56 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW29 hr
Nov 7, 12:58 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW8 hr
Nov 7, 12:58 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW15 hr
Nov 7, 9:02 PM PSTRiver Flood AdvisorySEW36 hr
Nov 10, 3:30 AM PSTFlood WatchSEW65 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW20 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW36 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW21 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW42 hr
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW3 days
Nov 11, 9:07 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW3 days
Nov 11, 9:09 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEW36 hr
Dec 17, 8:33 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Dec 20, 8:25 PM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC4 hr
Dec 26, 4:10 AM PSTFlood WatchSEW47 hr
Dec 27, 3:13 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW22 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.