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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Henry County, Alabama

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

Henry County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
566
Busiest year
202365 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
15over 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, 84% of hail, wind and damage reports in Henry County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 26 minutes before, and 31% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810370%560%38 min
200918856%683%45 min
201010460%3100%8 min
2011221818%1362%28 min
2012211148%7100%28 min
201314936%683%8 min
2014241633%888%14 min
2015362044%1979%23 min
2016312519%978%21 min
2017261735%1182%30 min
2018262215%989%30 min
2019191521%250%24 min
2020211814%5100%34 min
2021252116%989%32 min
2022252116%9100%17 min
2023654334%2588%25 min
2024221150%250%32 min
2025151313%7100%35 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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 19, 4:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE57 min
Aug 21, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE42 min
Aug 21, 2:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE45 min
Aug 21, 1:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE33 min
Aug 14, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE66 min
Aug 12, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE32 min
Jul 12, 1:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE61 min
Jul 12, 1:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE42 min
Jul 10, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE39 min
Jun 18, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE78 min
Jun 18, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE58 min
Jun 18, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTAE61 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.