Weather alerts in Polk County, Arkansas, 2009

By month

2 of 6 tornado warnings covering Polk County in 2009 had a tornado report inside them; 3 of 3 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 48 minutes after it went out.

Polk County, 2009

Each office's whole area, 2009

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.

1. May 6, 20098alerts
2. May 2, 20097alerts
3. July 16, 20097alerts
4. March 27, 20096alerts
5. October 29, 20096alerts
6. October 9, 20095alerts
7. April 10, 20094alerts
8. April 29, 20094alerts
9. June 12, 20094alerts
10. June 13, 20094alerts

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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.