Weather alerts in Wyoming
40,530 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 40,530
- Warnings
- 13,868
- Watches
- 4,017
- Advisories
- 4,328
- Busiest year
- 20192,938 alerts
- Average year
- 989over 41 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
From 2008 to 2025, 64% of tornado reports in Wyoming fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 67% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.
Tornado warnings by year
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 28 | 11 | 61% | 28 | 50% | 10 min |
| 2009 | 24 | 8 | 67% | 17 | 71% | 19 min |
| 2010 | 34 | 13 | 62% | 29 | 66% | 15 min |
| 2011 | 27 | 5 | 81% | 9 | 78% | 16 min |
| 2012 | 6 | 4 | 33% | 8 | 88% | 19 min |
| 2013 | 17 | 4 | 76% | 8 | 63% | 9 min |
| 2014 | 14 | 6 | 57% | 18 | 50% | 14 min |
| 2015 | 16 | 3 | 81% | 17 | 24% | 12 min |
| 2016 | 8 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| 2017 | 25 | 11 | 56% | 17 | 65% | 22 min |
| 2018 | 54 | 17 | 69% | 39 | 79% | 21 min |
| 2019 | 50 | 16 | 68% | 36 | 69% | 10 min |
| 2020 | 8 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| 2021 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 50% | 29 min |
| 2022 | 3 | 1 | 67% | 1 | 100% | 5 min |
| 2023 | 44 | 17 | 61% | 29 | 76% | 10 min |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 50% | 2 | 50% | 4 min |
| 2025 | 6 | 2 | 67% | 7 | 29% | 5 min |
Severe thunderstorm warnings by year
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 338 | 107 | 68% | 192 | 73% | 27 min |
| 2009 | 223 | 100 | 55% | 226 | 65% | 25 min |
| 2010 | 233 | 114 | 51% | 278 | 71% | 25 min |
| 2011 | 228 | 106 | 54% | 261 | 67% | 21 min |
| 2012 | 124 | 64 | 48% | 161 | 72% | 23 min |
| 2013 | 380 | 186 | 51% | 368 | 79% | 21 min |
| 2014 | 243 | 104 | 57% | 210 | 79% | 21 min |
| 2015 | 284 | 136 | 52% | 229 | 76% | 21 min |
| 2016 | 227 | 101 | 56% | 215 | 68% | 21 min |
| 2017 | 151 | 49 | 68% | 136 | 54% | 23 min |
| 2018 | 407 | 140 | 66% | 295 | 74% | 19 min |
| 2019 | 577 | 226 | 61% | 404 | 86% | 21 min |
| 2020 | 228 | 130 | 43% | 345 | 74% | 24 min |
| 2021 | 145 | 77 | 47% | 174 | 63% | 18 min |
| 2022 | 168 | 75 | 55% | 144 | 60% | 21 min |
| 2023 | 499 | 204 | 59% | 390 | 78% | 21 min |
| 2024 | 192 | 102 | 47% | 264 | 57% | 18 min |
| 2025 | 413 | 147 | 64% | 337 | 58% | 23 min |
Flash flood warnings by year
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 18 | 2 | 89% | 12 | 25% | 50 min |
| 2009 | 17 | 8 | 53% | 13 | 62% | 45 min |
| 2010 | 7 | 2 | 71% | 14 | 86% | 27 min |
| 2011 | 28 | 10 | 64% | 25 | 92% | 55 min |
| 2012 | 10 | 2 | 80% | 3 | 33% | 10 min |
| 2013 | 37 | 9 | 76% | 23 | 78% | 61 min |
| 2014 | 36 | 11 | 69% | 25 | 76% | 73 min |
| 2015 | 45 | 16 | 64% | 33 | 79% | 105 min |
| 2016 | 18 | 11 | 39% | 17 | 94% | 36 min |
| 2017 | 7 | 1 | 86% | 2 | 50% | 66 min |
| 2018 | 36 | 12 | 67% | 26 | 81% | 42 min |
| 2019 | 33 | 21 | 36% | 35 | 91% | 76 min |
| 2020 | 6 | 2 | 67% | 3 | 67% | 30 min |
| 2021 | 15 | 8 | 47% | 19 | 84% | 42 min |
| 2022 | 8 | 6 | 25% | 10 | 100% | 52 min |
| 2023 | 34 | 15 | 56% | 26 | 88% | 71 min |
| 2024 | 11 | 3 | 73% | 6 | 83% | 19 min |
| 2025 | 10 | 3 | 70% | 8 | 75% | 15 min |
Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.
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.
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Laramie County6,685
- Albany County4,752
- Fremont County4,675
- Platte County4,466
- Natrona County3,771
- Goshen County3,707
- Crook County3,625
- Johnson County3,406
- Weston County3,332
- Carbon County3,233
- Campbell County3,054
- Niobrara County2,905
- Converse County2,681
- Hot Springs County2,571
- Park County2,352
- Sublette County2,256
- Sweetwater County2,223
- Sheridan County2,111
- Lincoln County2,044
- Big Horn County2,009
- Teton County1,995
- Washakie County1,981
- Uinta County1,070
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 19, 6:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Natrona | 31 min |
| Sep 19, 6:37 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RIW | Natrona | 23 min |
| Sep 19, 6:25 PM MDT | Flash Flood Warning | RIW | Fremont | 3 hr |
| Sep 18, 7:56 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen | 49 min |
| Sep 18, 6:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CYS | Goshen, Platte | 39 min |
| Sep 18, 2:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SLC | Uinta | 29 min |
| Sep 14, 3:35 PM MDT | Freeze Warning | RIW | Lincoln | 17 hr |
| Sep 14, 5:29 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon | 8 hr |
| Sep 13, 12:57 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | CYS | Albany, Carbon, Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte | 31 hr |
| Sep 13, 11:10 AM MDT | High Wind Warning | RIW | Fremont, Hot Springs, Park | 27 hr |
| Sep 13, 10:03 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | RIW | Fremont, Natrona, Sweetwater | 34 hr |
| Sep 13, 8:50 AM MDT | Freeze Warning | RIW | Lincoln | 24 hr |
Nearby
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.