Alert archive / Washington / Yakima County
Weather alerts in Yakima County, Washington, 2010
71 weather alerts in 2010, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Yakima County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 71
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 44
- Busiest month
- July19 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 31, 20108 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Yakima County, 2010
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 2 | 50% | 10 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 3 | 3 | 0% | 3 | 100% | 29823 min |
Each office's whole area, 2010
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Pendleton, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings | 20 | 14 | 30% | 31 | 68% | 16 min |
| NWS Pendleton, OR: flash flood warnings | 6 | 3 | 50% | 3 | 100% | 29823 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 31, 9:13 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 13 hr |
| Dec 31, 9:13 PM PST | Freezing Rain Advisory | PDT | 13 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:58 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 8 hr |
| Jan 4, 11:11 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 27 hr |
| Jan 4, 5:30 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 35 hr |
| Jan 7, 3:16 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 45 hr |
| Jan 10, 3:40 AM PST | Freezing Rain Advisory | PDT | 33 hr |
| Jan 31, 9:01 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 4 hr |
| Feb 1, 4:10 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 8 hr |
| Feb 2, 5:15 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 10 hr |
| Mar 28, 2:28 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 30 hr |
| Apr 1, 2:19 PM PDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 32 hr |
| Apr 7, 3:24 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 28 hr |
| Apr 20, 10:15 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 46 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:40 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 3 days |
| May 1, 2:35 PM PDT | High Wind Watch | PDT | 24 hr |
| May 2, 2:32 PM PDT | High Wind Warning | PDT | 31 hr |
| May 2, 2:32 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 31 hr |
| May 3, 9:22 AM PDT | Dust Storm Warning | PDT | 13 hr |
| May 17, 12:48 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| May 19, 8:41 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 13 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:14 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | 31 days |
| Jul 3, 8:17 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 27 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:17 AM PDT | High Wind Watch | PDT | 8 hr |
| Jul 11, 11:01 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 35 hr |
| Jul 12, 8:45 AM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | PDT | 14 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:29 AM PDT | High Wind Warning | PDT | 13 hr |
| Jul 21, 2:47 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 30 hr |
| Jul 24, 11:45 AM PDT | Heat Advisory | PDT | 56 hr |
| Jul 28, 2:16 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PDT | 3 hr |
| Jul 28, 3:54 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | 5 hr |
| Jul 28, 5:10 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PDT | 3 hr |
| Jul 30, 11:06 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 54 min |
| Jul 31, 12:13 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 62 min |
| Jul 31, 12:53 AM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 67 min |
| Jul 31, 12:55 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 65 min |
| Jul 31, 2:35 PM PDT | Special Weather Statement | PDT | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 3:20 PM PDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PDT | 55 min |
| Jul 31, 4:06 PM PDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PDT | 47 min |
| Jul 31, 4:48 PM PDT | Flash Flood Warning | PDT | 3 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:59 PM PDT | Blowing Dust Advisory | PDT | 31 hr |
| Aug 25, 2:59 PM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 31 hr |
| Sep 4, 3:48 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 17 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:55 PM PDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Oct 15, 1:13 PM PDT | Freeze Warning | PDT | 44 hr |
| Oct 16, 9:14 AM PDT | Freeze Warning | PDT | 24 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:06 AM PDT | Wind Advisory | PDT | 11 hr |
| Nov 14, 2:36 PM PST | High Wind Watch | PDT | 13 hr |
| Nov 15, 3:20 AM PST | High Wind Warning | PDT | 31 hr |
| Nov 20, 3:07 PM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 67 hr |
| Nov 20, 3:07 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 61 hr |
| Nov 24, 10:02 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 3 days |
| Nov 28, 5:52 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 30 hr |
| Nov 28, 3:56 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 24 hr |
| Nov 29, 6:01 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 52 hr |
| Nov 29, 6:01 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 52 hr |
| Dec 1, 8:01 AM PST | Freezing Fog Advisory | PDT | 7 hr |
| Dec 2, 2:05 PM PST | Freezing Fog Advisory | PDT | 22 hr |
| Dec 3, 12:02 PM PST | Freezing Fog Advisory | PDT | 26 hr |
| Dec 6, 2:20 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 46 hr |
| Dec 7, 11:26 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 21 hr |
| Dec 9, 1:55 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 25 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:25 AM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 9 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:22 AM PST | Winter Storm Warning | PDT | 56 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:56 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 37 hr |
| Dec 16, 2:58 PM PST | Winter Storm Watch | PDT | 23 hr |
| Dec 17, 2:26 PM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 44 hr |
| Dec 19, 11:29 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 20 hr |
| Dec 21, 4:53 PM PST | Dense Fog Advisory | PDT | 17 hr |
| Dec 22, 9:28 AM PST | Winter Weather Advisory | PDT | 10 hr |
| Dec 29, 1:20 AM PST | Wind Advisory | PDT | 8 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 4 |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 12 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Dust Storm Warning | 1 |
| High Wind Warning | 3 |
| High Wind Watch | 3 |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 13 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 8 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 3 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.