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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Coosa County, Alabama

439 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Coosa County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
439
Busiest year
202341 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
12over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 75% of hail, wind and damage reports in Coosa County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 25 minutes before, and 38% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008341556%956%27 min
2009372143%425%52 min
201015847%0
2011292031%989%35 min
2012131023%1100%31 min
2013121017%5100%17 min
20145340%1100%38 min
20156517%2100%10 min
2016110%333%67 min
20178363%10%
20184175%1100%31 min
2019440%333%4 min
202011109%2268%21 min
20218363%367%27 min
20229456%3100%15 min
2023412929%2496%25 min
2024131023%967%26 min
2025191142%0

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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 7, 2:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX24 min
Aug 14, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX27 min
Jul 9, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX19 min
Jul 1, 6:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX52 min
Jun 1, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX82 min
Jun 1, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX54 min
Mar 12, 12:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX38 min
Mar 12, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX44 min
Jan 10, 9:01 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX44 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.