Alert archive / Wyoming

Weather alerts in Niobrara County, Wyoming

2,905 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Niobrara County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,905
Warnings
987
Watches
449
Advisories
263
Busiest year
2019298 alerts
Average year
71over 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, 69% of tornado reports in Niobrara County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 16 minutes before, and 54% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009010%
2010220%0
20114175%3100%17 min
201510100%0
201620100%0
2017110%0
20197529%560%17 min
202040100%0
2021110%1100%29 min
2022110%1100%5 min
202310100%0
20252150%250%8 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
200823291%10%
20098363%475%16 min
2010261350%1688%30 min
201120765%650%11 min
201210550%2100%25 min
2013311261%10100%23 min
20149278%3100%23 min
201524675%683%17 min
201622959%1070%19 min
201713469%540%12 min
201820480%580%24 min
2019772469%2492%16 min
202020765%1377%20 min
202117759%863%15 min
2022341362%1191%21 min
2023712269%1872%34 min
202415847%4100%26 min
202534682%2100%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
201010100%0
201110100%0
201210100%0
20157186%1100%86 min
20192150%0
20233167%2100%67 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 13, 12:57 PM MDTRed Flag WarningCYS31 hr
Sep 8, 6:44 AM MDTRed Flag WarningCYS13 hr
Sep 6, 9:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatCYS43 min
Sep 2, 12:09 PM MDTRed Flag WarningCYS32 hr
Aug 29, 3:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS42 min
Aug 29, 2:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS52 min
Aug 26, 4:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS22 min
Aug 25, 6:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS48 min
Aug 22, 6:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS47 min
Aug 22, 5:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS38 min
Aug 22, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS48 min
Aug 15, 5:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCYS42 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.