Alert archive / Washington / Snohomish County

Weather alerts in Snohomish County, Washington, 2020

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

Alerts
39
Warnings
24
Watches
8
Advisories
4
Busiest month
February13 alerts
Busiest day
January 7, 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.

Snohomish County, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings10100%0
Flash flood warnings010%

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Seattle, WA: tornado warnings5180%2100%1 min
NWS Seattle, WA: severe thunderstorm warnings30100%0
NWS Seattle, WA: flash flood warnings0130%

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 6, 3:31 AM PSTFlood WatchSEW43 hr
Jan 7, 1:59 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW29 hr
Jan 7, 1:59 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW39 hr
Jan 7, 5:57 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW15 hr
Jan 7, 6:34 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW23 hr
Jan 7, 6:34 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW18 hr
Jan 7, 11:22 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW44 hr
Jan 21, 2:26 PM PSTFlood WatchSEW64 hr
Jan 23, 3:30 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW15 hr
Jan 29, 12:03 PM PSTFlood WatchSEW4 days
Jan 31, 3:34 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW34 hr
Jan 31, 8:55 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW34 hr
Jan 31, 9:46 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW66 hr
Jan 31, 9:46 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW66 hr
Feb 1, 2:43 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW19 hr
Feb 1, 7:20 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW15 hr
Feb 4, 11:04 AM PSTFlood WatchSEW3 days
Feb 6, 4:06 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW61 hr
Feb 6, 4:06 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW4 days
Feb 6, 4:06 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW22 hr
Feb 6, 7:40 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW4 hr
Feb 6, 11:52 AM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEW6 hr
Feb 6, 5:25 PM PSTAreal Flood WarningSEW18 hr
Feb 7, 3:46 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW38 hr
May 30, 7:46 AM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSEW29 min
May 30, 8:14 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSEW31 min
May 30, 8:15 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementSEW30 min
Jun 13, 9:37 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW83 min
Jun 13, 9:48 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW87 min
Aug 14, 3:13 AM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW12 hr
Aug 14, 3:02 PM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW56 hr
Sep 4, 2:42 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEW36 hr
Sep 6, 2:44 AM PDTRed Flag WarningSEW5 days
Nov 17, 6:43 PM PSTSpecial Weather StatementSEW47 min
Dec 18, 3:12 AM PSTFlood WatchSEW68 hr
Dec 21, 2:57 PM PSTAreal Flood AdvisorySEW4 hr
Dec 21, 4:19 PM PSTFlood WatchSEW4 hr
Dec 21, 6:57 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningSEW13 hr
Dec 21, 7:36 PM 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.