Alert archive / Arkansas / Boone County
Weather alerts in Boone County, Arkansas, 2020
72 weather alerts in 2020, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Boone County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 72
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 10
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest month
- May19 alerts
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20208 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 3 tornado reports fell inside a warning.
Boone County, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 3 | 0% | |||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 17 | 11 | 35% | 5 | 80% | 21 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2020
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Little Rock, AR: tornado warnings | 54 | 11 | 80% | 30 | 70% | 16 min |
| NWS Little Rock, AR: severe thunderstorm warnings | 376 | 136 | 64% | 298 | 85% | 24 min |
| NWS Little Rock, AR: flash flood warnings | 107 | 43 | 60% | 104 | 84% | 82 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 4:55 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jan 10, 5:34 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 11 hr |
| Jan 10, 7:30 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jan 10, 8:05 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 55 min |
| Jan 10, 8:46 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 59 min |
| Mar 2, 5:21 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 4:27 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 12, 2:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Mar 12, 3:09 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 36 min |
| Mar 12, 3:44 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Mar 19, 11:05 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Mar 19, 11:19 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 26 min |
| Mar 19, 2:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 48 min |
| Mar 24, 2:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Mar 24, 8:12 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 18 min |
| Apr 12, 4:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 12, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| Apr 12, 6:14 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Apr 12, 6:36 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Apr 24, 8:52 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 38 min |
| Apr 28, 7:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 28, 8:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 48 min |
| May 3, 11:03 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 42 min |
| May 3, 11:44 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 3, 11:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 45 min |
| May 3, 11:54 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 51 min |
| May 4, 9:00 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| May 4, 10:38 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| May 4, 11:23 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 37 min |
| May 4, 11:31 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 59 min |
| May 4, 11:49 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 41 min |
| May 4, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 4, 1:04 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| May 4, 6:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 27 min |
| May 14, 1:41 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 22, 10:49 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 41 min |
| May 22, 11:29 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 25, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 48 min |
| May 27, 4:42 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 5:42 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 63 min |
| Jun 4, 5:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Jun 4, 6:28 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 47 min |
| Jun 21, 2:48 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 42 min |
| Jun 21, 4:20 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 40 min |
| Jul 1, 11:51 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 39 min |
| Jul 1, 12:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 4:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:23 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 37 min |
| Jul 2, 5:44 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 31 min |
| Jul 3, 2:53 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 52 min |
| Jul 4, 5:18 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 42 min |
| Jul 9, 7:16 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jul 11, 3:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 83 min |
| Jul 16, 12:26 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 11:54 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 10, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Aug 11, 11:28 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 47 min |
| Aug 11, 12:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 30 min |
| Aug 15, 2:00 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 11:40 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 50 min |
| Aug 29, 11:56 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Aug 29, 11:59 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 29 min |
| Oct 23, 8:45 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | LZK | 30 min |
| Oct 28, 8:21 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | LZK | 4 hr |
| Nov 14, 4:46 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 29 min |
| Nov 14, 5:14 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Nov 14, 7:34 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Nov 14, 10:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | 32 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 17 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 25 |
| Special Weather Statement | 19 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.