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Tornado Warnings in Jackson County, Alabama, 2010

15 tornado warnings in 2010. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Jackson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
15
Busiest month
October11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
October 26, 20108 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.

4 of 15 tornado warnings covering Jackson County in 2010 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 20 minutes after it went out.

Jackson County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings15473%250%20 min

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Huntsville, AL: tornado warnings671873%3073%20 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
Jan 21, 5:23 PM CSTTornado WarningHUN37 min
Jan 21, 5:57 PM CSTTornado WarningHUN33 min
Apr 24, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN34 min
Oct 25, 3:37 AM CDTTornado WarningHUN23 min
Oct 25, 3:54 AM CDTTornado WarningHUN21 min
Oct 25, 4:08 AM CDTTornado WarningHUN19 min
Oct 26, 2:11 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN34 min
Oct 26, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN33 min
Oct 26, 3:13 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN32 min
Oct 26, 4:13 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN32 min
Oct 26, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN36 min
Oct 26, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN24 min
Oct 26, 5:39 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN51 min
Oct 26, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningHUN23 min
Nov 25, 10:37 PM CSTTornado WarningHUN23 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.