Alert archive / Wyoming / Sheridan County
Weather alerts in Sheridan County, Wyoming, 2017
71 weather alerts in 2017, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Sheridan County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 71
- Warnings
- 9
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 6
- Busiest month
- June20 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 12, 20175 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Sheridan County, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 2 | 50% | 35 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Billings, MT: severe thunderstorm warnings | 31 | 15 | 52% | 58 | 45% | 23 min |
| NWS Billings, MT: flash flood warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 1 | 100% | 45 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 9, 11:03 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 4 hr |
| Jan 11, 9:43 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 2 hr |
| Jan 21, 7:54 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 2 hr |
| Feb 6, 11:04 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 56 min |
| Feb 9, 11:38 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 3 hr |
| Feb 10, 8:28 AM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 48 hr |
| Feb 20, 10:36 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 84 min |
| Mar 1, 7:44 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 3 hr |
| Mar 9, 10:28 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 77 min |
| Mar 12, 6:07 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 53 min |
| Mar 22, 7:23 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 112 min |
| Mar 31, 1:17 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 24 hr |
| Apr 17, 4:52 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 113 min |
| May 7, 5:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 7, 8:27 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 48 min |
| May 8, 12:12 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 48 hr |
| May 13, 7:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 40 min |
| May 14, 12:07 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 36 hr |
| May 15, 2:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 42 min |
| May 15, 3:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 39 min |
| May 15, 3:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| May 18, 2:48 AM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 48 hr |
| Jun 1, 7:48 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | 27 min |
| Jun 1, 8:29 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 46 min |
| Jun 8, 1:53 PM MDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BYZ | 48 hr |
| Jun 12, 2:17 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jun 12, 2:45 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 4:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 4:32 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | 28 min |
| Jun 12, 4:43 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 32 min |
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jun 12, 6:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 25 min |
| Jun 12, 7:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 29 min |
| Jun 12, 8:23 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 37 min |
| Jun 12, 9:01 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 29 min |
| Jun 14, 2:22 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 38 min |
| Jun 20, 4:53 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 52 min |
| Jun 20, 5:07 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 1:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jun 27, 2:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 74 min |
| Jun 28, 12:39 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 28, 5:17 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 43 min |
| Jul 5, 7:11 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 64 min |
| Jul 6, 4:31 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | 29 min |
| Jul 6, 6:50 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 55 min |
| Jul 7, 1:41 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | RIW | 34 min |
| Jul 9, 5:25 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 50 min |
| Jul 10, 6:03 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 57 min |
| Jul 10, 7:24 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 51 min |
| Jul 11, 5:08 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 67 min |
| Jul 15, 3:09 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 12 hr |
| Jul 15, 2:48 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 33 hr |
| Jul 16, 5:38 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 67 min |
| Jul 27, 6:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 60 min |
| Jul 27, 7:06 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 39 min |
| Jul 27, 7:39 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 66 min |
| Aug 1, 5:18 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 42 min |
| Aug 1, 6:31 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BYZ | 59 min |
| Aug 1, 6:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Aug 5, 5:40 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 35 min |
| Aug 31, 2:58 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 12 hr |
| Sep 1, 2:29 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 18 hr |
| Sep 1, 2:29 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 24 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:50 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 54 hr |
| Oct 19, 2:27 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 30 hr |
| Oct 20, 7:58 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 92 min |
| Oct 23, 3:04 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BYZ | 24 hr |
| Oct 24, 3:01 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BYZ | 36 hr |
| Nov 4, 8:33 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 117 min |
| Dec 6, 9:39 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 3 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:25 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | BYZ | 3 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 4 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 7 |
| Special Weather Statement | 44 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 6 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 5 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 4 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.