Alert archive / Colorado / Sedgwick County

Weather alerts in Sedgwick County, Colorado, 2008

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

Sedgwick County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
98
Warnings
29
Watches
23
Advisories
10
Busiest month
May30 alerts
Busiest day
May 22, 20087 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 2 tornado warnings covering Sedgwick County in 2008 had a tornado report inside them.

Sedgwick County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings20100%0
Severe thunderstorm warnings11645%450%23 min
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: tornado warnings581672%4464%13 min
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: severe thunderstorm warnings1475265%14054%20 min
NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: flash flood warnings14379%786%40 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
Mar 15, 12:14 PM MDTWinter Storm WatchBOU26 hr
Mar 16, 1:47 PM MDTSnow AdvisoryBOU5 hr
Mar 16, 6:37 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningBOU14 hr
Apr 8, 3:06 PM MDTWinter Storm WatchBOU22 hr
Apr 9, 12:40 PM MDTWinter Storm WarningBOU33 hr
Apr 14, 4:05 AM MDTFire Weather WatchBOU11 hr
Apr 14, 2:59 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU28 hr
Apr 19, 10:17 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU10 hr
Apr 19, 8:00 PM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU24 hr
Apr 23, 12:16 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 23, 1:25 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Apr 23, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU12 min
Apr 23, 6:06 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Apr 28, 3:53 PM MDTFire Weather WatchBOU12 hr
Apr 29, 4:01 AM MDTRed Flag WarningBOU16 hr
May 1, 3:50 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOU12 hr
May 2, 3:29 AM MDTHigh Wind WarningBOU15 hr
May 2, 7:42 AM MDTBlizzard WarningBOU13 hr
May 2, 8:36 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU12 hr
May 6, 12:58 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC92 min
May 9, 12:00 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC3 hr
May 9, 1:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
May 9, 2:47 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
May 9, 4:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU28 min
May 9, 4:39 PM MDTTornado WarningBOU38 min
May 9, 5:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
May 9, 9:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU56 min
May 9, 10:16 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
May 10, 2:22 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU18 hr
May 21, 2:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
May 21, 5:33 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC57 min
May 21, 7:08 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU52 min
May 21, 7:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
May 21, 8:04 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU56 min
May 21, 9:35 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC25 min
May 22, 11:25 AM MDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
May 22, 2:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU26 min
May 22, 5:44 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU28 min
May 23, 8:53 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
May 23, 12:41 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 23, 5:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
May 23, 5:37 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC23 min
May 23, 6:07 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
May 23, 9:11 PM MDTAreal Flood WarningBOU11 hr
May 29, 12:33 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 1, 6:45 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jun 1, 7:25 PM MDTTornado WarningBOU50 min
Jun 3, 12:53 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Jun 3, 1:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 3, 5:15 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jun 4, 11:54 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 4, 12:42 PM MDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 4, 2:26 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jun 4, 6:55 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC65 min
Jun 5, 4:33 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Jun 16, 3:27 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU48 min
Jun 16, 3:50 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jun 18, 12:02 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC28 min
Jun 18, 12:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 18, 11:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU44 min
Jun 19, 6:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC27 hr
Jun 19, 9:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU23 min
Jun 20, 6:08 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Jun 23, 4:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC54 min
Jun 23, 4:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 23, 6:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min
Jul 5, 2:13 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 6, 2:26 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 8, 9:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBOU27 min
Jul 12, 2:26 AM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Jul 23, 5:17 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU88 min
Jul 25, 1:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 25, 6:12 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC63 min
Jul 25, 7:22 PM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU83 min
Jul 26, 12:03 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU2 hr
Jul 26, 12:38 AM MDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBOU3 hr
Jul 31, 3:55 PM MDTHeat AdvisoryBOU29 hr
Aug 2, 10:43 AM MDTHeat AdvisoryBOU9 hr
Aug 3, 5:40 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Aug 3, 6:02 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Aug 12, 1:30 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC90 min
Aug 13, 5:38 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC67 min
Aug 14, 3:36 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 hr
Aug 14, 6:10 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC95 min
Aug 15, 2:32 PM MDTFlood WatchBOU32 hr
Sep 1, 3:36 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Sep 7, 8:49 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Sep 7, 10:44 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Sep 21, 1:50 PM MDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Oct 6, 11:13 AM MDTFrost AdvisoryBOU22 hr
Oct 13, 2:47 PM MDTFreeze WarningBOU18 hr
Oct 20, 3:10 PM MDTHigh Wind WatchBOU13 hr
Oct 21, 2:11 PM MDTHigh Wind WarningBOU28 hr
Nov 6, 1:24 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningBOU18 hr
Nov 10, 10:39 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOU24 hr
Nov 14, 1:30 PM MSTHigh Wind WarningBOU5 hr
Nov 30, 4:58 AM MSTHigh Wind WarningBOU12 hr
Dec 14, 12:34 AM MSTWinter Weather AdvisoryBOU15 hr

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

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.