Alert archive / Washington / Snohomish County

Weather alerts in Snohomish County, Washington, 2019

21 weather alerts in 2019, 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
21
Warnings
13
Watches
4
Advisories
2
Busiest month
October8 alerts
Busiest day
October 22, 20197 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, 2019

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

Each office's whole area, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Seattle, WA: tornado warnings020%
NWS Seattle, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
NWS Seattle, WA: flash flood warnings070%

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 1, 1:20 PM PSTFlood WatchSEW66 hr
Jan 6, 3:36 AM PSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSEW28 min
Feb 13, 7:54 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW12 hr
Aug 26, 2:19 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW24 hr
Sep 7, 4:36 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Oct 21, 12:37 AM PDTFlood WatchSEW35 hr
Oct 21, 11:53 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW21 hr
Oct 22, 1:23 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW20 hr
Oct 22, 2:12 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW13 hr
Oct 22, 3:37 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW40 hr
Oct 22, 3:37 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW54 hr
Oct 22, 3:39 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW11 hr
Oct 22, 7:48 AM PDTRiver Flood WarningSEW16 hr
Nov 15, 5:24 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSEW21 min
Dec 18, 11:20 AM PSTFlood WatchSEW4 days
Dec 20, 1:21 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW12 hr
Dec 20, 2:41 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW29 hr
Dec 20, 5:39 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW9 hr
Dec 20, 7:09 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW12 hr
Dec 20, 11:16 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW31 hr
Dec 21, 5:25 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW14 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.