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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Phillips County, Colorado, 2016

18 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2016. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Phillips County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
18
Busiest month
June10 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 27, 20167 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.

11 of 18 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Phillips County in 2016 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 19 of 20 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 15 minutes after it went out.

Phillips County, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings181139%2095%15 min

Each office's whole area, 2016

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: severe thunderstorm warnings2599464%23072%19 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 7, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU31 min
May 7, 6:56 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU34 min
May 29, 8:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU49 min
Jun 17, 5:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU34 min
Jun 17, 6:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU22 min
Jun 26, 6:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU32 min
Jun 26, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU31 min
Jun 27, 3:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU37 min
Jun 27, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU38 min
Jun 27, 4:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU53 min
Jun 27, 5:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU47 min
Jun 27, 5:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU36 min
Jun 28, 8:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU57 min
Jul 7, 5:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU31 min
Jul 18, 9:11 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU64 min
Jul 27, 8:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU27 min
Sep 4, 4:12 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU48 min
Sep 4, 4:42 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU29 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.