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Tornado Warnings in Walton County, Florida, 2019

5 tornado warnings in 2019. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Walton County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
5
Busiest month
March2 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 3, 20192 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 5 tornado warnings covering Walton County in 2019 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 6 minutes after it went out.

Walton County, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings5180%1100%6 min

Each office's whole area, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tallahassee, FL: tornado warnings742073%3278%11 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
Mar 3, 12:26 PM CSTTornado WarningTAE14 min
Mar 3, 4:24 PM CSTTornado WarningTAE36 min
Oct 30, 6:03 PM CDTTornado WarningTAE27 min
Dec 17, 3:34 AM CSTTornado WarningTAE28 min
Dec 17, 3:58 AM CSTTornado WarningTAE28 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20182020

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.