Alert archive / Wyoming / Big Horn County

Weather alerts in Big Horn County, Wyoming, 2012

87 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Big Horn County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
87
Warnings
34
Watches
19
Advisories
10
Busiest month
July20 alerts
Busiest day
July 28, 20125 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Big Horn County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings00
Severe thunderstorm warnings30100%20%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Riverton, WY: severe thunderstorm warnings26773%3444%24 min
NWS Riverton, WY: flash flood warnings10100%10%

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, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 10, 2:37 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW17 hr
Feb 20, 2:22 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningRIW60 hr
Feb 21, 2:57 AM MSTWinter Storm WarningRIW48 hr
Feb 27, 3:03 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW27 hr
Mar 6, 5:34 PM MSTAreal Flood AdvisoryRIW6 hr
Mar 30, 2:29 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW24 hr
Mar 31, 2:18 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW18 hr
Apr 12, 6:53 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW37 min
Apr 24, 2:35 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW40 min
Apr 24, 4:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW45 min
Apr 24, 4:42 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW48 min
Apr 24, 6:57 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW48 min
Apr 25, 3:52 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW38 min
Apr 27, 11:37 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW12 hr
Apr 28, 11:36 AM MDTWinter Storm WarningRIW18 hr
May 25, 3:10 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW24 hr
May 27, 3:03 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW42 min
Jun 2, 12:20 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW70 min
Jun 2, 12:59 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW31 min
Jun 2, 1:11 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW49 min
Jun 2, 11:58 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW47 min
Jun 3, 1:42 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 4, 9:35 AM MDTAreal Flood WarningRIW24 hr
Jun 4, 11:27 AM MDTFlood WatchRIW22 hr
Jun 4, 5:04 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW26 min
Jun 17, 1:56 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW67 hr
Jun 24, 1:46 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW6 days
Jun 24, 2:48 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW11 hr
Jun 29, 2:54 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ60 hr
Jun 30, 3:17 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW3 days
Jul 2, 5:02 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ10 hr
Jul 2, 2:34 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ33 hr
Jul 2, 4:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW39 min
Jul 2, 5:23 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW37 min
Jul 10, 1:30 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW9 hr
Jul 10, 1:30 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW43 hr
Jul 10, 2:37 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Jul 10, 4:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW86 min
Jul 11, 12:43 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
Jul 12, 3:24 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW10 hr
Jul 13, 1:27 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW18 hr
Jul 17, 2:15 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW30 min
Jul 17, 3:00 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW45 min
Jul 27, 2:27 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
Jul 27, 8:13 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW62 min
Jul 27, 9:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW42 min
Jul 28, 2:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW42 min
Jul 28, 2:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW32 min
Jul 28, 3:30 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW29 min
Jul 31, 3:19 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ49 hr
Aug 1, 3:03 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ41 hr
Aug 2, 2:12 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW43 hr
Aug 5, 3:35 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ12 hr
Aug 6, 3:55 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ17 hr
Aug 9, 12:19 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW33 hr
Aug 10, 4:10 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ17 hr
Aug 11, 7:12 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW48 min
Aug 13, 3:47 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ11 hr
Aug 13, 3:10 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ30 hr
Aug 22, 1:16 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW26 hr
Aug 22, 2:55 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ19 hr
Aug 23, 9:36 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ38 hr
Aug 23, 3:01 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW54 hr
Aug 26, 4:24 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ48 hr
Aug 27, 2:58 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW27 hr
Aug 28, 4:05 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ43 hr
Aug 28, 3:51 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW29 hr
Aug 30, 3:37 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ5 hr
Aug 30, 8:49 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ3 days
Sep 3, 4:56 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ40 hr
Sep 6, 3:49 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ22 hr
Sep 7, 2:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ4 days
Sep 8, 3:21 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW57 hr
Sep 9, 2:41 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW24 hr
Sep 12, 2:01 PM MDTFreeze WarningRIW19 hr
Sep 28, 4:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW42 min
Sep 30, 4:07 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBYZ30 hr
Oct 1, 3:00 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW24 hr
Oct 1, 9:39 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBYZ34 hr
Oct 2, 2:53 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW21 hr
Oct 2, 2:21 PM MDTFreeze WatchRIW24 hr
Oct 3, 2:47 PM MDTFreeze WarningRIW19 hr
Nov 8, 2:10 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW49 hr
Nov 24, 2:37 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW48 hr
Dec 7, 2:33 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW47 hr
Dec 10, 9:45 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW14 hr
Dec 23, 10:52 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW37 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.