Alert archive / Florida / Okaloosa County

Weather alerts in Okaloosa County, Florida, 2011

99 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Okaloosa County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
99
Warnings
37
Watches
21
Advisories
4
Busiest month
September32 alerts
Busiest day
September 4, 201115 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

2 of 11 tornado warnings covering Okaloosa County in 2011 had a tornado report inside them; 2 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 22 minutes after it went out.

Okaloosa County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings11282%2100%22 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings16569%1225%21 min
Flash flood warnings5260%3100%148 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Mobile, AL: tornado warnings1543379%5693%28 min
NWS Mobile, AL: severe thunderstorm warnings2235575%18357%22 min
NWS Mobile, AL: flash flood warnings351169%2692%107 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 1, 3:10 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Jan 1, 9:04 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Jan 1, 9:51 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC4 hr
Jan 1, 12:32 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Feb 1, 5:54 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Feb 1, 6:08 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB52 min
Feb 1, 6:19 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC5 hr
Feb 1, 6:38 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB52 min
Feb 1, 7:50 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Feb 28, 5:16 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Mar 5, 1:31 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Mar 5, 3:13 PM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Mar 5, 7:12 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC93 min
Mar 9, 7:26 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Mar 9, 9:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB65 min
Mar 9, 9:31 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Mar 9, 10:09 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB66 min
Mar 9, 10:30 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB32 min
Mar 9, 11:03 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOB5 hr
Mar 9, 11:09 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC66 min
Mar 9, 11:10 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB65 min
Mar 9, 11:41 AM CSTTornado WarningMOB26 min
Mar 9, 11:48 AM CSTFlash Flood WarningMOB4 hr
Mar 9, 12:16 PM CSTTornado WarningMOB26 min
Mar 27, 10:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Mar 27, 2:49 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
Mar 27, 3:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr
Mar 27, 6:24 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Mar 30, 1:51 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Mar 30, 4:07 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Apr 4, 5:28 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 4, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB61 min
Apr 4, 10:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB44 min
Apr 4, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningMOB14 min
Apr 4, 11:21 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC84 min
Apr 4, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB15 min
Apr 15, 7:16 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC59 min
Apr 15, 7:48 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Apr 15, 10:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Apr 16, 2:05 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Apr 28, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB19 min
May 26, 10:39 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC96 min
Jun 3, 5:32 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC118 min
Jun 4, 5:22 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC113 min
Jun 6, 5:09 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 7, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB21 min
Jun 11, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB47 min
Jun 26, 5:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB45 min
Jun 27, 1:44 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jun 28, 10:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jul 2, 12:58 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Jul 2, 1:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB44 min
Jul 16, 7:42 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOB2 hr
Jul 16, 11:19 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOB4 hr
Jul 16, 11:30 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOB4 hr
Jul 27, 3:14 AM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOB2 hr
Aug 1, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB46 min
Aug 1, 4:44 PM CDTAreal Flood AdvisoryMOB61 min
Aug 9, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC4 hr
Aug 10, 5:34 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC86 min
Aug 12, 2:05 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Sep 3, 1:43 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Sep 3, 9:41 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC12 hr
Sep 3, 1:41 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC64 min
Sep 3, 5:57 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 3, 7:53 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningMOB6 hr
Sep 3, 9:11 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOB12 hr
Sep 3, 9:11 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOB12 hr
Sep 3, 9:11 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningMOB49 hr
Sep 3, 9:43 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Sep 3, 11:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Sep 4, 4:15 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB60 min
Sep 4, 5:04 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB41 min
Sep 4, 5:05 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC11 hr
Sep 4, 5:36 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOB3 hr
Sep 4, 9:42 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB33 min
Sep 4, 9:50 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC85 min
Sep 4, 2:47 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC88 min
Sep 4, 3:47 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
Sep 4, 6:29 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Sep 4, 9:42 PM CDTTornado WatchSPC9 hr
Sep 4, 11:35 PM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC115 min
Sep 5, 4:26 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC94 min
Sep 5, 5:11 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB64 min
Sep 5, 5:35 AM CDTTornado WatchSPC10 hr
Sep 5, 7:23 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningMOB12 hr
Sep 5, 8:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB65 min
Sep 5, 9:16 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB44 min
Sep 5, 9:59 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB61 min
Sep 5, 10:39 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningMOB111 min
Sep 5, 10:58 AM CDTTornado WarningMOB62 min
Sep 5, 11:01 AM CDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC29 min
Sep 5, 1:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMOB39 min
Nov 16, 9:46 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Nov 16, 9:59 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC91 min
Dec 22, 9:32 AM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC58 min
Dec 22, 10:00 AM CSTTornado WatchSPC7 hr
Dec 26, 8:46 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC89 min
Dec 26, 11:50 PM CSTMesoscale DiscussionSPC55 min

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.