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Tornado Warnings in Clarke County, Alabama, 2011

30 tornado warnings in 2011. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Clarke County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
30
Busiest month
April21 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 15, 201111 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

5 of 30 tornado warnings covering Clarke County in 2011 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 35 minutes after it went out.

Clarke County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings30583%1100%35 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Mobile, AL: tornado warnings1543379%5693%28 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Mar 9, 5:40 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB33 min
Apr 4, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB67 min
Apr 4, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB53 min
Apr 4, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB39 min
Apr 11, 7:52 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB22 min
Apr 15, 10:50 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB40 min
Apr 15, 11:26 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB49 min
Apr 15, 11:52 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB38 min
Apr 15, 12:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB40 min
Apr 15, 12:51 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB33 min
Apr 15, 1:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB21 min
Apr 15, 1:46 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB44 min
Apr 15, 2:22 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB38 min
Apr 15, 3:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB32 min
Apr 15, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB48 min
Apr 15, 6:44 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB61 min
Apr 15, 7:39 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB29 min
Apr 15, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB51 min
Apr 15, 8:50 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB55 min
Apr 15, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB49 min
Apr 15, 10:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB55 min
Apr 15, 10:24 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB51 min
Sep 4, 1:20 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB55 min
Sep 4, 4:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB59 min
Sep 5, 3:36 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB39 min
Sep 5, 6:15 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB19 min
Nov 16, 8:27 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB63 min
Nov 16, 9:13 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB47 min
Nov 16, 9:29 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB37 min
Dec 22, 11:59 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB22 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20102012

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.