Alert archive / Wyoming / Lincoln County

Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Wyoming, 2015

89 weather alerts in 2015, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lincoln County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
89
Warnings
24
Watches
19
Advisories
27
Busiest month
July11 alerts
Busiest day
June 16, 20155 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Lincoln County in 2015 had a tornado report inside them.

Lincoln County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings2150%425%14 min
Flash flood warnings20100%0

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Riverton, WY: tornado warnings7186%520%1 min
NWS Riverton, WY: severe thunderstorm warnings701776%4654%18 min
NWS Riverton, WY: flash flood warnings25676%863%76 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, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 3, 1:20 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchRIW24 hr
Jan 4, 1:37 AM MSTWinter Storm WarningRIW41 hr
Jan 4, 10:58 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningRIW30 hr
Jan 8, 5:49 PM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryRIW17 hr
Jan 10, 1:48 AM MSTDense Fog AdvisoryRIW8 hr
Jan 16, 2:11 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW6 hr
Jan 17, 2:39 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchRIW11 hr
Jan 17, 1:21 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningRIW34 hr
Jan 17, 1:21 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW34 hr
Jan 27, 2:18 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW21 hr
Feb 2, 4:36 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW59 hr
Feb 2, 2:00 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningRIW49 hr
Feb 6, 1:52 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW25 hr
Feb 8, 12:25 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW38 hr
Feb 20, 12:00 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW51 hr
Mar 23, 10:53 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW34 hr
Apr 12, 11:02 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchRIW22 hr
Apr 13, 8:53 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningRIW25 hr
Apr 14, 1:19 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 14, 3:29 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW39 hr
Apr 25, 2:17 AM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW46 hr
May 3, 4:41 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW49 min
May 3, 5:07 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW38 min
May 3, 5:33 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryRIW3 hr
May 3, 5:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW36 min
May 3, 6:43 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW47 min
May 3, 7:32 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningRIW118 min
May 8, 2:40 PM MDTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW36 hr
May 8, 6:54 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW51 min
May 21, 4:48 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW42 min
Jun 1, 2:53 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchRIW20 hr
Jun 15, 12:41 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Jun 15, 2:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 15, 4:22 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC83 min
Jun 15, 4:57 PM MDTTornado WarningRIW33 min
Jun 15, 7:02 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW43 min
Jun 15, 7:29 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Jun 15, 7:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW24 min
Jun 15, 8:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW30 min
Jun 15, 8:37 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW38 min
Jul 6, 3:40 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW50 min
Jul 6, 4:31 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW44 min
Jul 6, 5:18 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW42 min
Jul 7, 1:49 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchRIW20 hr
Jul 7, 6:56 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW49 min
Jul 7, 7:51 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW39 min
Jul 7, 9:54 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchRIW31 hr
Jul 7, 10:12 PM MDTFlash Flood WarningRIW108 min
Jul 15, 11:52 AM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW38 min
Jul 21, 2:30 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchRIW31 hr
Jul 22, 9:23 PM MDTFlash Flood WatchRIW16 hr
Aug 3, 12:52 AM MDTFlash Flood WatchRIW25 hr
Aug 12, 8:19 PM MDTSpecial Weather StatementRIW41 min
Aug 16, 2:21 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW31 hr
Aug 19, 1:27 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW22 hr
Aug 19, 11:05 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW19 hr
Aug 19, 11:05 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW69 hr
Aug 27, 1:34 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW22 hr
Aug 28, 11:58 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW63 hr
Aug 31, 3:11 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW20 hr
Aug 31, 3:11 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW54 hr
Sep 4, 1:38 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW7 hr
Sep 4, 9:06 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW72 hr
Sep 5, 12:25 PM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW14 hr
Sep 5, 2:25 PM MDTFreeze WarningRIW19 hr
Sep 8, 1:45 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW19 hr
Sep 8, 1:05 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW31 hr
Sep 9, 1:10 PM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW31 hr
Sep 12, 12:38 AM MDTFire Weather WatchRIW24 hr
Sep 13, 1:04 AM MDTRed Flag WarningRIW44 hr
Nov 2, 1:46 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW39 hr
Nov 9, 11:05 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW16 hr
Nov 17, 1:33 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningRIW39 hr
Nov 17, 1:26 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchRIW12 hr
Nov 17, 1:46 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW22 hr
Nov 18, 12:48 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW52 hr
Nov 23, 3:14 PM MSTWinter Storm WatchRIW23 hr
Nov 23, 11:20 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW66 hr
Nov 24, 2:21 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningRIW51 hr
Nov 27, 8:56 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW14 hr
Dec 7, 10:23 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW16 hr
Dec 9, 2:14 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW22 hr
Dec 9, 2:31 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW35 hr
Dec 12, 1:32 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW3 days
Dec 16, 1:19 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW8 hr
Dec 20, 1:41 AM MSTWinter Storm WatchRIW21 hr
Dec 20, 10:14 PM MSTWinter Storm WarningRIW39 hr
Dec 20, 10:14 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW71 hr
Dec 24, 2:13 PM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryRIW33 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.