Alert archive / Washington / Wahkiakum County

Weather alerts in Wahkiakum County, Washington, 2017

18 weather alerts in 2017, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Wahkiakum County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
18
Warnings
13
Watches
0
Advisories
2
Busiest month
October4 alerts
Busiest day
February 9, 20172 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Wahkiakum County in 2017 had a tornado report inside them.

Wahkiakum County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings50100%10%
Flash flood warnings010%

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Portland, OR: tornado warnings30100%70%
NWS Portland, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings19384%1145%13 min
NWS Portland, OR: flash flood warnings3167%147%301 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 7, 9:20 AM PSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC6 hr
Feb 9, 4:50 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQR32 hr
Feb 9, 7:00 AM PSTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQR6 hr
Feb 16, 3:15 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQR9 hr
May 4, 2:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR41 min
May 4, 3:04 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR41 min
May 4, 7:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR29 min
Sep 18, 4:15 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR30 min
Sep 18, 4:46 PM PDTTornado WarningPQR29 min
Sep 18, 5:13 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPQR32 min
Oct 12, 12:33 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPQR27 min
Oct 12, 2:58 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPQR17 min
Oct 21, 2:09 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPQR17 hr
Oct 21, 7:19 PM PDTRiver Flood WarningPQR26 hr
Nov 20, 6:18 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQR24 hr
Nov 21, 6:14 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQR25 hr
Nov 22, 11:45 PM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQR24 hr
Dec 29, 9:37 AM PSTRiver Flood WarningPQR22 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.