Alert archive / Colorado / Kit Carson County / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kit Carson County, Colorado, 2020

54 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Kit Carson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
54
Busiest month
July18 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 2, 20207 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

22 of 54 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Kit Carson County in 2020 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 15 of 26 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 28 minutes after it went out.

Kit Carson County, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings542259%2658%28 min

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Goodland, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings24911454%36277%31 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, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 3, 9:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD40 min
May 3, 9:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD45 min
May 3, 10:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD32 min
May 3, 10:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD47 min
May 15, 8:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD48 min
May 23, 5:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD44 min
May 24, 6:27 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD48 min
May 24, 7:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD48 min
May 24, 8:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD38 min
Jun 2, 2:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD27 min
Jun 2, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD52 min
Jun 3, 1:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD28 min
Jun 3, 2:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD25 min
Jun 3, 2:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD65 min
Jun 3, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD68 min
Jun 3, 3:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD66 min
Jun 4, 4:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD46 min
Jun 4, 4:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD63 min
Jun 6, 6:15 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD45 min
Jun 6, 6:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD62 min
Jun 19, 5:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD35 min
Jun 26, 7:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD54 min
Jun 26, 8:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD76 min
Jul 2, 2:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD54 min
Jul 2, 3:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD53 min
Jul 2, 3:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD67 min
Jul 2, 3:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD66 min
Jul 2, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD46 min
Jul 2, 4:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD29 min
Jul 2, 4:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD25 min
Jul 3, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD64 min
Jul 3, 7:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD55 min
Jul 3, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD65 min
Jul 3, 9:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD46 min
Jul 12, 3:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD54 min
Jul 12, 5:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD46 min
Jul 13, 5:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD76 min
Jul 13, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD68 min
Jul 20, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD63 min
Jul 26, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD61 min
Jul 26, 5:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD58 min
Aug 5, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD57 min
Aug 8, 4:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD71 min
Aug 9, 3:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD71 min
Aug 11, 3:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD65 min
Aug 11, 4:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD97 min
Aug 15, 6:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD41 min
Aug 15, 6:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD47 min
Aug 16, 2:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD48 min
Aug 16, 2:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD64 min
Aug 16, 3:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD41 min
Aug 16, 4:00 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD60 min
Aug 16, 4:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD96 min
Aug 16, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD29 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.