Alert archive

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

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008281161%2850%10 min
200924867%1771%19 min
2010341362%2966%15 min
201127581%978%16 min
20126433%888%19 min
201317476%863%9 min
201414657%1850%14 min
201516381%1724%12 min
201680100%10%
2017251156%1765%22 min
2018541769%3979%21 min
2019501668%3669%10 min
202080100%10%
20212150%250%29 min
20223167%1100%5 min
2023441761%2976%10 min
20242150%250%4 min
20256267%729%5 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200833810768%19273%27 min
200922310055%22665%25 min
201023311451%27871%25 min
201122810654%26167%21 min
20121246448%16172%23 min
201338018651%36879%21 min
201424310457%21079%21 min
201528413652%22976%21 min
201622710156%21568%21 min
20171514968%13654%23 min
201840714066%29574%19 min
201957722661%40486%21 min
202022813043%34574%24 min
20211457747%17463%18 min
20221687555%14460%21 min
202349920459%39078%21 min
202419210247%26457%18 min
202541314764%33758%23 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200818289%1225%50 min
200917853%1362%45 min
20107271%1486%27 min
2011281064%2592%55 min
201210280%333%10 min
201337976%2378%61 min
2014361169%2576%73 min
2015451664%3379%105 min
2016181139%1794%36 min
20177186%250%66 min
2018361267%2681%42 min
2019332136%3591%76 min
20206267%367%30 min
202115847%1984%42 min
20228625%10100%52 min
2023341556%2688%71 min
202411373%683%19 min
202510370%875%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.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 19, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIWNatrona31 min
Sep 19, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIWNatrona23 min
Sep 19, 6:25 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningRIWFremont3 hr
Sep 18, 7:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen49 min
Sep 18, 6:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYSGoshen, Platte39 min
Sep 18, 2:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLCUinta29 min
Sep 14, 3:35 PM MDTFreeze WarningRIWLincoln17 hr
Sep 14, 5:29 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningCYSAlbany, Carbon8 hr
Sep 13, 12:57 PM MDTRed Flag WarningCYSAlbany, Carbon, Converse, Goshen, Niobrara, Platte31 hr
Sep 13, 11:10 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningRIWFremont, Hot Springs, Park27 hr
Sep 13, 10:03 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIWFremont, Natrona, Sweetwater34 hr
Sep 13, 8:50 AM MDTFreeze WarningRIWLincoln24 hr

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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.