Alert archive / Florida / Sarasota County

Weather alerts in Sarasota County, Florida, 2009

52 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Sarasota County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
52
Warnings
10
Watches
5
Advisories
8
Busiest month
June14 alerts
Busiest day
September 12, 20097 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 1 tornado warnings covering Sarasota County in 2009 had a tornado report inside them; 0 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning.

Sarasota County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings10100%10%
Severe thunderstorm warnings60100%20%
Flash flood warnings00

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tampa Bay, FL: tornado warnings16475%1250%8 min
NWS Tampa Bay, FL: severe thunderstorm warnings1052279%4961%18 min
NWS Tampa Bay, FL: flash flood warnings30100%0

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 19, 11:14 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC61 min
Apr 3, 10:54 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 hr
Apr 14, 6:15 AM EDTTornado WatchSPC6 hr
May 12, 2:04 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC56 min
May 13, 3:07 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC53 min
May 13, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBW24 min
May 13, 4:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW60 min
May 14, 3:42 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW63 min
May 17, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW58 min
May 20, 3:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW52 min
May 20, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBW32 min
May 20, 6:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW40 min
Jun 3, 5:14 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW2 hr
Jun 5, 6:39 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW66 min
Jun 5, 3:27 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW48 min
Jun 6, 8:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW48 min
Jun 7, 12:08 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW37 min
Jun 17, 9:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBW26 min
Jun 17, 9:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBW34 min
Jun 18, 11:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC7 hr
Jun 18, 3:00 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC60 min
Jun 18, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBW51 min
Jun 23, 7:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 23, 11:21 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPC114 min
Jun 23, 2:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr
Jun 29, 12:11 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW64 min
Jul 1, 12:06 PM EDTRiver Flood WarningTBW22 hr
Jul 1, 2:55 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW65 min
Jul 1, 3:02 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW6 hr
Jul 2, 2:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW45 min
Jul 18, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW60 min
Jul 19, 3:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW49 min
Jul 20, 7:54 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW51 min
Jul 20, 8:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTBW51 min
Jul 20, 8:58 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW47 min
Aug 4, 3:33 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW42 min
Aug 8, 7:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW41 min
Aug 14, 3:11 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW64 min
Aug 16, 4:58 PM EDTTornado WarningTBW32 min
Aug 21, 2:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW38 min
Aug 27, 7:58 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW62 min
Aug 29, 11:19 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningTBW10 days
Sep 12, 5:33 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW117 min
Sep 12, 7:12 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW3 hr
Sep 12, 10:18 AM EDTRiver Flood WarningTBW10 days
Sep 12, 10:21 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW114 min
Sep 12, 12:13 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW3 hr
Sep 12, 3:18 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryTBW117 min
Sep 12, 5:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementTBW40 min
Dec 2, 7:44 PM ESTTornado WatchSPC8 hr
Dec 2, 10:08 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC97 min
Dec 18, 6:39 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPC2 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.

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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.