Weather alerts in Pope County, Arkansas, 2008

199 weather alerts in 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pope County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 199
Warnings: 98
Watches: 29
Advisories: 6
Busiest month: April42 alerts
Busiest day: April 10, 200821 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

4 of 10 tornado warnings covering Pope County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them; 2 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 20 minutes after it went out.

Pope County, 2008

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	10	4	60%	2	100%	20 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	63	17	73%	7	86%	18 min
Flash flood warnings	22	15	32%	4	100%	70 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Little Rock, AR: tornado warnings	98	24	76%	58	93%	24 min
NWS Little Rock, AR: severe thunderstorm warnings	615	157	74%	293	84%	22 min
NWS Little Rock, AR: flash flood warnings	156	65	58%	117	89%	98 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 8, 7:18 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Jan 8, 8:15 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Jan 8, 8:30 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	45 min
Feb 5, 6:39 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Feb 5, 11:16 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Feb 5, 2:08 PM CST	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	10 hr
Feb 5, 2:26 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	34 min
Feb 5, 4:29 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	46 min
Feb 5, 4:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	42 min
Feb 5, 5:15 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Feb 5, 5:37 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	23 min
Feb 5, 5:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Feb 11, 8:30 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	30 min
Feb 11, 9:48 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Feb 11, 10:01 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	44 min
Feb 11, 10:51 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Feb 11, 11:34 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	26 min
Feb 21, 12:22 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Feb 21, 7:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Feb 25, 4:39 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 3, 3:01 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Mar 3, 8:32 AM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	4 hr
Mar 3, 11:05 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LZK	3 hr
Mar 3, 12:07 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	6 hr
Mar 3, 12:20 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	5 hr
Mar 3, 5:44 PM CST	River Flood Warning	LZK	14 hr
Mar 4, 1:25 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Mar 4, 9:20 AM CST	River Flood Advisory	LZK	7 hr
Mar 6, 5:16 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Mar 13, 4:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	37 min
Mar 13, 6:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Mar 13, 9:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	42 min
Mar 13, 11:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Mar 14, 1:34 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Mar 14, 10:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	28 min
Mar 14, 11:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 15, 12:58 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	47 min
Mar 15, 1:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Mar 17, 1:03 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	10 hr
Mar 17, 7:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Mar 17, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Mar 17, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	51 min
Mar 17, 9:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Mar 17, 10:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Mar 18, 2:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Mar 18, 10:16 AM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr
Mar 18, 12:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 18, 12:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	48 min
Mar 18, 1:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	40 min
Mar 18, 1:23 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	39 min
Mar 18, 1:55 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	6 hr
Mar 18, 2:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	39 min
Mar 18, 3:47 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	6 hr
Mar 18, 7:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	6 hr
Mar 18, 9:55 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	61 hr
Mar 30, 12:45 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 31, 3:04 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	26 min
Mar 31, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Mar 31, 5:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	65 min
Mar 31, 7:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	60 min
Mar 31, 8:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
Apr 3, 5:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	40 min
Apr 3, 5:22 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Apr 3, 2:07 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	17 hr
Apr 3, 3:50 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 3, 6:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 3, 7:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Apr 3, 8:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
Apr 3, 8:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	47 min
Apr 3, 9:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Apr 3, 10:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	51 min
Apr 4, 1:41 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Apr 8, 2:30 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	60 min
Apr 9, 8:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 9, 9:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	41 min
Apr 9, 11:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	44 min
Apr 9, 11:58 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	5 hr
Apr 10, 12:21 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	39 min
Apr 10, 12:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	39 min
Apr 10, 1:12 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	48 min
Apr 10, 1:22 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	4 hr
Apr 10, 1:45 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Apr 10, 2:13 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	32 min
Apr 10, 2:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	39 min
Apr 10, 3:15 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	4 hr
Apr 10, 3:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Apr 10, 6:18 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	42 min
Apr 10, 6:30 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Apr 10, 6:57 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	48 min
Apr 10, 7:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	LZK	67 hr
Apr 10, 7:21 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Apr 10, 7:35 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	40 min
Apr 10, 7:58 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Apr 10, 8:37 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	4 hr
Apr 22, 10:12 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
Apr 22, 10:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 22, 12:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Apr 22, 12:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	43 min
Apr 22, 2:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 22, 3:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Apr 25, 2:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
May 2, 5:00 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 2, 6:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
May 2, 7:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
May 2, 8:41 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	49 min
May 7, 4:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
May 7, 9:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	55 min
May 7, 9:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 7, 10:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
May 10, 11:29 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 10, 3:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	51 min
May 10, 4:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	48 min
May 10, 4:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	46 min
May 10, 5:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 10, 6:51 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	7 hr
May 10, 7:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	43 min
May 10, 7:58 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	47 min
May 10, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	21 min
May 10, 9:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	93 min
May 13, 7:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 25, 1:13 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 25, 5:50 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	40 min
May 25, 6:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
May 25, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	41 min
May 25, 6:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
May 25, 7:28 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	62 min
May 26, 5:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
May 26, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	44 min
May 26, 5:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	48 min
May 26, 7:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	48 min
May 27, 4:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	40 min
May 27, 7:09 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Jun 1, 6:17 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Jun 1, 8:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 1, 10:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Jun 1, 1:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Jun 1, 1:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
Jun 1, 1:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	44 min
Jun 9, 1:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Jun 9, 2:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	46 min
Jun 9, 2:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 13, 4:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	62 min
Jun 13, 5:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 13, 7:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	54 min
Jun 13, 7:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	38 min
Jun 13, 8:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	56 min
Jun 13, 8:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	94 min
Jun 13, 8:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	34 min
Jun 13, 9:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	114 min
Jun 13, 10:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	57 min
Jun 13, 10:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Jun 13, 11:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Jun 13, 11:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 15, 6:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
Jun 15, 6:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Jun 23, 4:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Jul 3, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	20 min
Jul 3, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	38 min
Jul 5, 5:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	26 min
Jul 5, 6:41 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	2 hr
Jul 12, 2:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Jul 22, 2:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 22, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	52 min
Jul 22, 3:56 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Jul 22, 5:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	34 min
Jul 22, 5:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	27 min
Aug 9, 10:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 22, 2:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	2 hr
Aug 29, 4:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	40 min
Aug 29, 5:00 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	45 min
Sep 2, 11:15 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Sep 3, 9:13 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	3 hr
Sep 3, 12:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	6 hr
Sep 4, 9:31 AM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	36 hr
Sep 12, 1:43 PM CDT	River Flood Advisory	LZK	35 hr
Sep 13, 1:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Sep 13, 2:09 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr
Sep 13, 4:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	45 min
Sep 13, 4:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	44 min
Sep 13, 7:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Sep 13, 11:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Sep 13, 11:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	LZK	5 hr
Oct 31, 12:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Oct 31, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr
Oct 31, 5:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Nov 6, 1:18 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	27 min
Dec 9, 12:22 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Dec 9, 1:20 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	25 min
Dec 9, 3:41 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Dec 14, 11:47 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Dec 15, 11:43 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Dec 26, 9:05 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Dec 27, 12:03 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 27, 3:32 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Dec 27, 6:35 AM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Dec 27, 8:03 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Dec 27, 1:14 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	LZK	61 min
Dec 27, 1:20 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	25 min
Dec 27, 1:52 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

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	63
Tornado Warning	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	14
Tornado Watch	15
Mesoscale Discussion	66
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	22
River Flood Warning	3
River Flood Advisory	6

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2007 2009

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.