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Tornado Warnings in Saint Lucie County, Florida, 2024

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

Saint Lucie County and its neighbors

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

Tornado Warnings
28
Busiest month
October20 tornado warnings
Busiest day
October 9, 202420 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.

13 of 28 tornado warnings covering Saint Lucie County in 2024 had a tornado report inside them; 16 of 18 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 23 minutes after it went out.

Saint Lucie County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings281354%1889%23 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Melbourne, FL: tornado warnings652365%3786%20 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
Jan 6, 2:10 PM ESTTornado WarningMLB21 min
Jan 9, 8:51 PM ESTTornado WarningMLB24 min
Jan 15, 5:03 PM ESTTornado Warning Tornado observedMLB27 min
Jan 15, 5:35 PM ESTTornado WarningMLB25 min
Jan 15, 5:57 PM ESTTornado WarningMLB33 min
Sep 26, 8:30 AM EDTTornado WarningMLB15 min
Sep 26, 8:44 AM EDTTornado WarningMLB31 min
Sep 26, 9:06 AM EDTTornado WarningMLB24 min
Oct 9, 12:25 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMLB35 min
Oct 9, 12:50 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMLB40 min
Oct 9, 1:24 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMLB36 min
Oct 9, 1:32 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB43 min
Oct 9, 2:06 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB39 min
Oct 9, 2:39 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB36 min
Oct 9, 2:53 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB37 min
Oct 9, 2:58 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB47 min
Oct 9, 3:12 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB33 min
Oct 9, 3:21 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMLB39 min
Oct 9, 3:58 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB32 min
Oct 9, 4:07 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB38 min
Oct 9, 4:12 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB48 min
Oct 9, 4:14 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB31 min
Oct 9, 4:41 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB34 min
Oct 9, 4:59 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB31 min
Oct 9, 5:06 PM EDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatMLB24 min
Oct 9, 5:25 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedMLB35 min
Oct 9, 5:57 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB22 min
Oct 9, 6:01 PM EDTTornado WarningMLB29 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.