Alert archive / Colorado / Sedgwick County
Weather alerts in Sedgwick County, Colorado, 2017
93 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 93
- Warnings
- 29
- Watches
- 17
- Advisories
- 11
- Busiest month
- July19 alerts
- Busiest day
- August 2, 20175 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Sedgwick County, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 12 | 3 | 75% | 0 | ||
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: tornado warnings | 18 | 3 | 83% | 15 | 33% | 8 min |
| NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: severe thunderstorm warnings | 145 | 51 | 65% | 143 | 65% | 17 min |
| NWS Denver/Boulder, CO: flash flood warnings | 9 | 2 | 78% | 4 | 50% | 22 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 4, 4:48 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | 18 hr |
| Jan 5, 3:19 PM MST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOU | 18 hr |
| Jan 6, 6:36 PM MST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOU | 14 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:03 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | 45 hr |
| Feb 20, 3:49 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 11 hr |
| Feb 20, 2:28 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 28 hr |
| Feb 22, 2:20 PM MST | Winter Weather Advisory | BOU | 39 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:26 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 13 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:02 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 38 hr |
| Mar 5, 4:02 AM MST | High Wind Watch | BOU | 10 hr |
| Mar 5, 2:28 PM MST | High Wind Warning | BOU | 29 hr |
| Mar 6, 5:44 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 10 hr |
| Mar 6, 3:33 PM MST | High Wind Warning | BOU | 25 hr |
| Mar 6, 3:35 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 25 hr |
| Mar 7, 3:16 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 13 hr |
| Mar 8, 4:01 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 14 hr |
| Mar 8, 2:37 PM MST | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 13 hr |
| Mar 9, 3:12 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 15 hr |
| Mar 15, 2:15 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 17 hr |
| Mar 15, 9:29 PM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 22 hr |
| Mar 17, 4:49 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 35 hr |
| Mar 18, 3:49 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 39 hr |
| Mar 22, 10:47 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 31 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:36 PM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 12 hr |
| Apr 9, 3:59 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 14 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:12 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOU | 4 hr |
| Apr 14, 7:37 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Apr 29, 3:25 PM MDT | Freeze Warning | BOU | 17 hr |
| May 3, 4:17 AM MDT | Frost Advisory | BOU | 27 hr |
| May 7, 4:55 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| May 8, 12:01 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| May 8, 12:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| May 8, 2:59 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| May 8, 6:18 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| May 16, 4:47 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| May 25, 12:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| May 26, 1:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| May 26, 5:14 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 2, 1:03 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 7, 2:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 12, 5:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 27, 5:28 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 32 min |
| Jun 28, 3:07 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Jul 2, 4:58 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 5:12 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | 48 min |
| Jul 2, 5:29 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 46 min |
| Jul 2, 6:09 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 20 min |
| Jul 2, 7:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Jul 3, 4:30 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 45 min |
| Jul 3, 4:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Jul 4, 3:16 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | 44 min |
| Jul 4, 3:22 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 23 min |
| Jul 7, 7:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jul 7, 8:54 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 24 min |
| Jul 10, 7:46 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 29 min |
| Jul 10, 8:21 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 18, 1:44 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 18, 5:26 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 24 min |
| Jul 18, 5:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 34 min |
| Jul 20, 2:35 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 15 min |
| Jul 28, 1:49 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 1, 6:20 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | 25 min |
| Aug 2, 1:15 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 2:36 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:00 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 5:12 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:28 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 12, 2:59 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 12, 5:16 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Aug 15, 2:52 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 113 min |
| Aug 15, 4:03 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Aug 15, 6:05 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 115 min |
| Aug 15, 7:57 PM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | 63 min |
| Aug 17, 5:00 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 19, 3:51 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Aug 21, 3:58 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOU | 4 hr |
| Aug 21, 8:21 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOU | 99 min |
| Aug 24, 1:04 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 16, 2:03 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | 42 min |
| Sep 16, 2:43 AM MDT | Special Weather Statement | BOU | 32 min |
| Sep 18, 10:47 AM MDT | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 16 hr |
| Sep 18, 10:47 AM MDT | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 33 hr |
| Sep 30, 4:36 PM MDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Oct 1, 4:35 PM MDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BOU | 30 min |
| Oct 5, 2:19 AM MDT | Dense Fog Advisory | BOU | 7 hr |
| Oct 8, 4:18 AM MDT | Freeze Warning | BOU | 54 hr |
| Nov 19, 3:41 AM MST | Fire Weather Watch | BOU | 25 hr |
| Nov 20, 4:15 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 15 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:31 AM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 12 hr |
| Dec 10, 2:18 PM MST | Red Flag Warning | BOU | 27 hr |
| Dec 23, 1:48 PM MST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 26, 8:02 PM MST | Wind Chill Advisory | BOU | 12 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 | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 30 |
| Special Weather Statement | 6 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 2 |
| High Wind Watch | 1 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 13 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 10 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.