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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ashley County, Arkansas

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

Ashley County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
599
Busiest year
202534 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
15over 41 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, 79% of hail, wind and damage reports in Ashley County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 28 minutes before, and 44% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008301550%3158%16 min
2009291645%1788%32 min
2010241442%1580%22 min
2011301840%2378%33 min
2012161319%13100%24 min
2013281739%2778%33 min
2014131023%1567%26 min
201512925%5100%15 min
201612650%5100%36 min
201714936%1771%31 min
2018211433%1984%27 min
201927870%888%18 min
202014657%1493%33 min
202113654%5100%36 min
202218950%1182%28 min
2023281643%2167%35 min
202417947%771%17 min
2025341653%9100%21 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
Aug 20, 6:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN69 min
Aug 20, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatJAN77 min
Aug 20, 4:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN42 min
Jul 12, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN53 min
Jul 6, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN64 min
Jul 1, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN62 min
Mar 15, 8:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN58 min
Mar 15, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN63 min
Mar 15, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN61 min
Mar 7, 1:41 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJAN42 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.