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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings110%250%10 min
Flash flood warnings330%3100%29823 min

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Pendleton, OR: severe thunderstorm warnings201430%3168%16 min
NWS Pendleton, OR: flash flood warnings6350%3100%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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Dec 31, 9:13 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT13 hr
Dec 31, 9:13 PM PSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryPDT13 hr
Jan 2, 3:58 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT8 hr
Jan 4, 11:11 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT27 hr
Jan 4, 5:30 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT35 hr
Jan 7, 3:16 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT45 hr
Jan 10, 3:40 AM PSTFreezing Rain AdvisoryPDT33 hr
Jan 31, 9:01 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT4 hr
Feb 1, 4:10 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT8 hr
Feb 2, 5:15 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT10 hr
Mar 28, 2:28 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT30 hr
Apr 1, 2:19 PM PDTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT32 hr
Apr 7, 3:24 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT28 hr
Apr 20, 10:15 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT46 hr
Apr 28, 12:40 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT3 days
May 1, 2:35 PM PDTHigh Wind WatchPDT24 hr
May 2, 2:32 PM PDTHigh Wind WarningPDT31 hr
May 2, 2:32 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT31 hr
May 3, 9:22 AM PDTDust Storm WarningPDT13 hr
May 17, 12:48 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 19, 8:41 AM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT13 hr
Jun 30, 5:14 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDT31 days
Jul 3, 8:17 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT27 hr
Jul 11, 3:17 AM PDTHigh Wind WatchPDT8 hr
Jul 11, 11:01 AM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT35 hr
Jul 12, 8:45 AM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryPDT14 hr
Jul 12, 9:29 AM PDTHigh Wind WarningPDT13 hr
Jul 21, 2:47 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT30 hr
Jul 24, 11:45 AM PDTHeat AdvisoryPDT56 hr
Jul 28, 2:16 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPDT3 hr
Jul 28, 3:54 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDT5 hr
Jul 28, 5:10 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPDT3 hr
Jul 30, 11:06 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDT54 min
Jul 31, 12:13 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDT62 min
Jul 31, 12:53 AM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDT67 min
Jul 31, 12:55 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDT65 min
Jul 31, 2:35 PM PDTSpecial Weather StatementPDT55 min
Jul 31, 3:20 PM PDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPDT55 min
Jul 31, 4:06 PM PDTAreal Flood AdvisoryPDT47 min
Jul 31, 4:48 PM PDTFlash Flood WarningPDT3 hr
Aug 25, 2:59 PM PDTBlowing Dust AdvisoryPDT31 hr
Aug 25, 2:59 PM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT31 hr
Sep 4, 3:48 AM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT17 hr
Sep 19, 3:55 PM PDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Oct 15, 1:13 PM PDTFreeze WarningPDT44 hr
Oct 16, 9:14 AM PDTFreeze WarningPDT24 hr
Oct 25, 9:06 AM PDTWind AdvisoryPDT11 hr
Nov 14, 2:36 PM PSTHigh Wind WatchPDT13 hr
Nov 15, 3:20 AM PSTHigh Wind WarningPDT31 hr
Nov 20, 3:07 PM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT67 hr
Nov 20, 3:07 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT61 hr
Nov 24, 10:02 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT3 days
Nov 28, 5:52 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT30 hr
Nov 28, 3:56 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT24 hr
Nov 29, 6:01 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT52 hr
Nov 29, 6:01 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT52 hr
Dec 1, 8:01 AM PSTFreezing Fog AdvisoryPDT7 hr
Dec 2, 2:05 PM PSTFreezing Fog AdvisoryPDT22 hr
Dec 3, 12:02 PM PSTFreezing Fog AdvisoryPDT26 hr
Dec 6, 2:20 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT46 hr
Dec 7, 11:26 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT21 hr
Dec 9, 1:55 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT25 hr
Dec 10, 12:25 AM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT9 hr
Dec 10, 4:22 AM PSTWinter Storm WarningPDT56 hr
Dec 10, 2:56 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT37 hr
Dec 16, 2:58 PM PSTWinter Storm WatchPDT23 hr
Dec 17, 2:26 PM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT44 hr
Dec 19, 11:29 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT20 hr
Dec 21, 4:53 PM PSTDense Fog AdvisoryPDT17 hr
Dec 22, 9:28 AM PSTWinter Weather AdvisoryPDT10 hr
Dec 29, 1:20 AM PSTWind AdvisoryPDT8 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.