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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Lincoln County, Arkansas

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

Lincoln County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
668
Busiest year
201174 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
17over 40 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, 86% of hail, wind and damage reports in Lincoln County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 21 minutes before, and 64% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200824867%3100%17 min
2009371462%2100%12 min
2010241058%475%21 min
2011752567%1479%21 min
2012291259%2100%24 min
201324483%250%35 min
2014271256%2100%34 min
201518478%2100%30 min
201611645%475%27 min
201710550%1100%30 min
201820860%580%12 min
201919953%1100%38 min
2020241058%4100%26 min
202120860%560%12 min
2022261254%989%9 min
2023421271%9100%28 min
202424963%475%19 min
2025481471%6100%23 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, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK37 min
Aug 20, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK31 min
Aug 7, 5:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK22 min
Jun 22, 7:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK44 min
May 23, 1:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK15 min
Apr 28, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK16 min
Apr 28, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK24 min
Apr 28, 11:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK50 min
Apr 28, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK25 min
Apr 28, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK27 min
Mar 15, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK47 min
Mar 15, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK47 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.