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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Clarke County, Georgia

247 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Clarke County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
247
Busiest year
199816 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
6over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 88% of hail, wind and damage reports in Clarke County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 19 minutes before, and 23% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811373%1100%2 min
2009121017%4100%10 min
20107614%875%10 min
20117614%4100%28 min
20123233%0
20134325%560%11 min
20144325%367%25 min
20158713%786%13 min
2016330%250%7 min
2017121017%888%7 min
2018990%12100%20 min
2019990%1486%8 min
2020550%0
20214250%4100%14 min
20223167%367%25 min
2023141121%2993%27 min
20249633%1100%9 min
202512925%1587%33 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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 latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 28, 4:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC32 min
Jul 28, 10:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC45 min
Jul 19, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC25 min
Jul 11, 12:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC29 min
Jun 18, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC62 min
Jun 18, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC65 min
Jun 18, 4:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC66 min
Mar 16, 7:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC42 min
Mar 16, 6:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC48 min

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.