Alert archive / Wyoming

Weather alerts in Laramie County, Wyoming

6,685 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Laramie County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
6,685
Warnings
2,648
Watches
1,088
Advisories
777
Busiest year
2019520 alerts
Average year
163over 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, 73% of tornado reports in Laramie County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 52% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088275%838%3 min
20093167%0
201014843%1573%14 min
20114175%10%
20123233%2100%9 min
20132150%2100%4 min
20143233%580%15 min
2015010%
20179544%786%21 min
201818950%1587%21 min
20198363%2100%10 min
202311645%757%1 min
20253167%1100%1 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
200819574%2040%22 min
2009321263%2658%24 min
2010301453%3554%27 min
2011432444%6677%18 min
2012251348%4685%24 min
2013481569%8081%14 min
2014441957%4489%23 min
2015331167%1953%21 min
2016462448%4791%17 min
201720670%2962%39 min
2018843064%6268%21 min
2019773456%5387%16 min
2020342138%5689%21 min
2021321941%4293%16 min
202221862%1471%14 min
2023833459%5092%16 min
2024462154%3388%18 min
2025693746%6090%25 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085260%633%53 min
2010110%1283%30 min
20119811%1794%54 min
201250100%0
20136517%13100%75 min
20146350%3100%49 min
2015220%1191%107 min
20168625%5100%23 min
201710100%0
20189633%1889%32 min
20199633%7100%59 min
20214325%5100%42 min
2022110%0
202311736%989%72 min
20244250%1100%48 min
2025220%5100%17 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.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 10, 12:12 PM MDTRed Flag WarningCYS31 hr
Sep 8, 8:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningCYS48 hr
Aug 26, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS19 min
Aug 26, 6:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS40 min
Aug 26, 5:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS48 min
Aug 26, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS43 min
Aug 26, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS42 min
Aug 25, 6:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatCYS42 min
Aug 25, 5:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS51 min
Aug 25, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS40 min
Aug 22, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS50 min
Aug 22, 1:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS41 min

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.