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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pinal County, Arizona, 2008

61 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Pinal County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
61
Busiest month
August31 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
August 29, 200813 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.

12 of 61 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Pinal County in 2008 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 5 of 7 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

Pinal County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings611280%771%21 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tucson, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings1281390%3853%20 min
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings1412582%5271%22 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, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 15, 3:21 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR54 min
Jun 25, 8:48 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR30 min
Jun 26, 3:54 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR36 min
Jun 26, 4:50 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR25 min
Jun 29, 4:37 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR23 min
Jul 3, 3:46 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR44 min
Jul 3, 4:43 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC47 min
Jul 3, 5:02 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC58 min
Jul 3, 10:06 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR54 min
Jul 4, 4:13 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR62 min
Jul 4, 4:55 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC35 min
Jul 8, 4:08 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC37 min
Jul 8, 4:46 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC44 min
Jul 10, 6:54 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR66 min
Jul 10, 7:29 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR40 min
Jul 12, 2:25 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC24 min
Jul 14, 3:35 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR55 min
Jul 19, 7:03 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC42 min
Jul 24, 6:56 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC34 min
Jul 24, 7:02 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR43 min
Jul 24, 7:29 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR48 min
Jul 26, 5:31 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR44 min
Jul 26, 6:22 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR38 min
Aug 1, 4:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC45 min
Aug 1, 5:01 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC44 min
Aug 4, 2:05 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC40 min
Aug 6, 2:05 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC25 min
Aug 7, 4:13 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC47 min
Aug 7, 4:54 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC21 min
Aug 7, 4:56 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC34 min
Aug 7, 7:26 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR49 min
Aug 7, 8:04 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR56 min
Aug 13, 7:16 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC46 min
Aug 13, 8:36 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC39 min
Aug 14, 6:07 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR38 min
Aug 15, 10:40 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR50 min
Aug 18, 7:34 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC41 min
Aug 25, 2:15 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR60 min
Aug 25, 3:06 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR54 min
Aug 25, 3:58 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR62 min
Aug 27, 2:54 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC36 min
Aug 28, 5:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR41 min
Aug 28, 5:52 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC38 min
Aug 28, 6:15 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC30 min
Aug 28, 6:43 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC32 min
Aug 28, 8:11 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR49 min
Aug 28, 8:19 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR41 min
Aug 28, 8:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR51 min
Aug 28, 9:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR60 min
Aug 28, 9:33 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC42 min
Aug 28, 9:34 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR56 min
Aug 28, 9:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR51 min
Aug 28, 10:19 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR56 min
Aug 28, 10:46 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR44 min
Sep 10, 3:52 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR38 min
Sep 10, 4:13 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC47 min
Sep 10, 4:22 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR38 min
Sep 10, 4:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC46 min
Oct 11, 5:15 AM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR45 min
Nov 9, 3:54 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR36 min
Nov 26, 10:57 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR18 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.