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
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 1 | 0% | |
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 6 | 0 | 100% | 2 | 0% | |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2009
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Tampa Bay, FL: tornado warnings | 16 | 4 | 75% | 12 | 50% | 8 min |
| NWS Tampa Bay, FL: severe thunderstorm warnings | 105 | 22 | 79% | 49 | 61% | 18 min |
| NWS Tampa Bay, FL: flash flood warnings | 3 | 0 | 100% | 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 11:14 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Apr 3, 10:54 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 14, 6:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 12, 2:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| May 13, 3:07 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| May 13, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 24 min |
| May 13, 4:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 60 min |
| May 14, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 63 min |
| May 17, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 58 min |
| May 20, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 52 min |
| May 20, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 32 min |
| May 20, 6:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 40 min |
| Jun 3, 5:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 6:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 66 min |
| Jun 5, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 48 min |
| Jun 6, 8:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 48 min |
| Jun 7, 12:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 37 min |
| Jun 17, 9:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 26 min |
| Jun 17, 9:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 34 min |
| Jun 18, 11:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 3:00 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Jun 18, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 51 min |
| Jun 23, 7:27 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 11:21 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 23, 2:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 12:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 64 min |
| Jul 1, 12:06 PM EDT | River Flood Warning | TBW | 22 hr |
| Jul 1, 2:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 65 min |
| Jul 1, 3:02 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 2:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 45 min |
| Jul 18, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 60 min |
| Jul 19, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 49 min |
| Jul 20, 7:54 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 8:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TBW | 51 min |
| Jul 20, 8:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 47 min |
| Aug 4, 3:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 42 min |
| Aug 8, 7:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 41 min |
| Aug 14, 3:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 64 min |
| Aug 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TBW | 32 min |
| Aug 21, 2:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 38 min |
| Aug 27, 7:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 11:19 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TBW | 10 days |
| Sep 12, 5:33 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 117 min |
| Sep 12, 7:12 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 10:18 AM EDT | River Flood Warning | TBW | 10 days |
| Sep 12, 10:21 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 114 min |
| Sep 12, 12:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 3 hr |
| Sep 12, 3:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TBW | 117 min |
| Sep 12, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TBW | 40 min |
| Dec 2, 7:44 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Dec 2, 10:08 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Dec 18, 6:39 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 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 | 6 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 8 |
| Special Weather Statement | 21 |
| Flooding | |
| River Flood Warning | 3 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 8 |
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.