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Tornado Warnings in DeSoto County, Florida, 2024

27 tornado warnings in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

DeSoto County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
27
Busiest month
September11 tornado warnings
Busiest day
September 26, 202411 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

1 of 27 tornado warnings covering DeSoto County in 2024 had a tornado report inside them.

DeSoto County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings27196%0

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tampa Bay, FL: tornado warnings751185%1580%17 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 4, 8:42 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW33 min
Aug 4, 10:19 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW26 min
Aug 4, 10:45 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Aug 4, 11:04 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW26 min
Aug 4, 11:30 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Aug 4, 12:59 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW31 min
Aug 4, 4:59 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW20 min
Aug 4, 5:00 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Aug 4, 10:15 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW17 min
Sep 26, 7:01 AM EDTTornado WarningTBW8 min
Sep 26, 5:06 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW24 min
Sep 26, 5:25 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW20 min
Sep 26, 5:44 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW16 min
Sep 26, 5:46 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW14 min
Sep 26, 6:08 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW37 min
Sep 26, 6:29 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW31 min
Sep 26, 7:19 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW26 min
Sep 26, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW15 min
Sep 26, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW13 min
Sep 26, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW13 min
Oct 9, 12:51 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatTBW24 min
Oct 9, 1:12 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW30 min
Oct 9, 1:49 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW41 min
Oct 9, 1:54 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW29 min
Oct 9, 2:22 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW38 min
Oct 9, 2:24 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW36 min
Oct 9, 2:58 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW32 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.