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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Pinal County, Arizona, 2018

60 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
60
Busiest month
August29 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 9, 201812 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.

22 of 60 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Pinal County in 2018 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 14 of 20 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 19 minutes after it went out.

Pinal County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings602263%2070%19 min

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Phoenix, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings1073964%21654%17 min
NWS Tucson, AZ: severe thunderstorm warnings1142380%4482%17 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
Jul 9, 1:11 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC38 min
Jul 9, 2:21 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR24 min
Jul 9, 2:22 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC39 min
Jul 9, 2:46 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR44 min
Jul 9, 3:01 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR29 min
Jul 9, 3:17 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR28 min
Jul 9, 3:29 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR31 min
Jul 9, 3:40 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR35 min
Jul 9, 3:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR31 min
Jul 9, 4:33 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR25 min
Jul 9, 4:44 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR31 min
Jul 9, 4:49 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC41 min
Jul 10, 1:45 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC45 min
Jul 10, 2:29 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC25 min
Jul 16, 6:32 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC23 min
Jul 28, 7:26 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC34 min
Jul 28, 7:57 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC33 min
Jul 29, 5:07 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR38 min
Aug 1, 7:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC46 min
Aug 2, 5:19 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR26 min
Aug 2, 5:43 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR47 min
Aug 2, 5:57 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR33 min
Aug 2, 6:12 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR33 min
Aug 2, 6:32 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR28 min
Aug 2, 6:42 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR33 min
Aug 7, 4:48 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC42 min
Aug 8, 7:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR36 min
Aug 9, 10:41 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR34 min
Aug 9, 11:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR19 min
Aug 10, 5:38 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC52 min
Aug 10, 8:25 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR35 min
Aug 10, 11:02 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR43 min
Aug 12, 3:46 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR44 min
Aug 12, 5:05 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC55 min
Aug 12, 5:58 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC52 min
Aug 12, 6:11 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR34 min
Aug 12, 6:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR31 min
Aug 12, 7:07 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC38 min
Aug 22, 2:39 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC66 min
Aug 22, 2:59 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR31 min
Aug 22, 3:22 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR23 min
Aug 22, 3:26 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC49 min
Aug 22, 3:47 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR28 min
Aug 22, 4:37 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC53 min
Aug 23, 5:30 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR45 min
Aug 23, 7:12 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR48 min
Aug 23, 8:12 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR48 min
Sep 2, 4:50 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC40 min
Sep 2, 5:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR45 min
Sep 2, 5:42 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR48 min
Sep 2, 6:00 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR45 min
Sep 2, 7:47 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR43 min
Oct 7, 1:32 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC43 min
Oct 21, 3:21 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC54 min
Oct 21, 4:17 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR43 min
Oct 21, 6:40 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR41 min
Oct 21, 7:04 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR26 min
Oct 23, 1:27 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR48 min
Oct 23, 1:52 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTWC68 min
Oct 23, 2:01 PM MSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPSR27 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.