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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Lamar County, Alabama, 2010

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

Lamar County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
30
Busiest month
April6 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 24, 20105 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

23 of 30 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Lamar County in 2010 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 21 of 27 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 25 minutes after it went out.

Lamar County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings302323%2778%25 min

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Birmingham, AL: severe thunderstorm warnings34918447%44567%21 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 12, 1:37 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX38 min
Mar 12, 1:59 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX31 min
Mar 12, 2:22 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX53 min
Mar 12, 3:02 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX46 min
Apr 24, 3:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX16 min
Apr 24, 7:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX49 min
Apr 24, 8:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX44 min
Apr 24, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX46 min
Apr 24, 4:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX67 min
Apr 24, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX36 min
May 2, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX37 min
May 20, 1:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX28 min
May 21, 5:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX51 min
May 24, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX30 min
Jun 2, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX33 min
Jun 9, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX38 min
Jun 9, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX32 min
Jun 19, 2:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX34 min
Jun 26, 3:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX56 min
Jul 16, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX59 min
Aug 15, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX44 min
Aug 15, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX40 min
Aug 15, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX49 min
Oct 12, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX49 min
Oct 25, 1:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX25 min
Oct 25, 1:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX41 min
Oct 25, 1:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX31 min
Oct 26, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX51 min
Nov 30, 12:06 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX39 min
Nov 30, 12:43 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBMX47 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.