Alert archive / Georgia / Colquitt County
Weather alerts in Colquitt County, Georgia, 2012
192 weather alerts in 2012, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Colquitt County and its neighbors
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- Alerts
- 192
- Warnings
- 59
- Watches
- 37
- Advisories
- 43
- Busiest month
- February34 alerts
- Busiest day
- February 24, 201211 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
2 of 3 tornado warnings covering Colquitt County in 2012 had a tornado report inside them; 2 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 17 minutes after it went out.
Colquitt County, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 3 | 2 | 33% | 2 | 100% | 17 min |
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 28 | 21 | 25% | 12 | 100% | 15 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2012
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Tallahassee, FL: tornado warnings | 77 | 16 | 79% | 34 | 76% | 10 min |
| NWS Tallahassee, FL: severe thunderstorm warnings | 425 | 237 | 44% | 569 | 79% | 22 min |
| NWS Tallahassee, FL: flash flood warnings | 37 | 20 | 46% | 44 | 93% | 97 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 3:51 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 307 days |
| Jan 1, 6:50 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 24 hr |
| Jan 1, 3:16 PM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 12 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:40 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 29 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:40 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 24 hr |
| Jan 2, 7:16 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 22 hr |
| Jan 2, 7:16 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 11 hr |
| Jan 2, 2:53 PM EST | Hard Freeze Watch | TAE | 20 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:12 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 28 hr |
| Jan 2, 3:33 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:05 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 10 hr |
| Jan 3, 10:23 AM EST | Hard Freeze Warning | TAE | 24 hr |
| Jan 3, 3:34 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 26 hr |
| Jan 6, 8:41 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 14 hr |
| Jan 7, 9:33 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 12 hr |
| Jan 8, 11:42 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 9 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:52 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Jan 12, 4:22 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 24 hr |
| Jan 12, 3:19 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 23 hr |
| Jan 13, 4:04 AM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 13 hr |
| Jan 13, 2:46 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 27 hr |
| Jan 19, 1:42 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 3 hr |
| Jan 21, 5:48 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 57 min |
| Jan 21, 7:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 46 min |
| Jan 21, 8:07 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 23 min |
| Jan 21, 8:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 32 min |
| Jan 26, 3:16 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Jan 26, 4:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 26, 7:29 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 91 min |
| Jan 28, 4:07 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 11 hr |
| Jan 28, 2:44 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 25 hr |
| Jan 28, 2:44 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 28 hr |
| Jan 29, 3:35 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 26 hr |
| Feb 10, 3:24 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 24 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:16 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | TAE | 32 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:17 AM EST | Hard Freeze Watch | TAE | 36 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:17 AM EST | Hard Freeze Warning | TAE | 31 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:17 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:31 PM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 26 hr |
| Feb 11, 3:31 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 28 hr |
| Feb 12, 1:48 PM EST | Hard Freeze Warning | TAE | 19 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:05 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 28 hr |
| Feb 15, 12:29 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 9 hr |
| Feb 16, 2:56 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 3 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:38 PM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 29 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:05 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Feb 18, 8:24 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:12 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 9:22 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 38 min |
| Feb 18, 9:39 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 51 min |
| Feb 18, 9:44 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | 2 hr |
| Feb 18, 10:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 43 min |
| Feb 22, 5:09 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 5 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:31 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 15 hr |
| Feb 24, 5:59 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 14 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:04 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Feb 24, 12:57 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | 33 min |
| Feb 24, 1:11 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 49 min |
| Feb 24, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | 32 min |
| Feb 24, 1:40 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 50 min |
| Feb 24, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Warning | TAE | 17 min |
| Feb 24, 1:50 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Feb 24, 2:02 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 28 min |
| Feb 24, 2:21 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 39 min |
| Feb 24, 4:11 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Feb 24, 8:07 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 24 hr |
| Feb 29, 5:52 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 3 hr |
| Feb 29, 8:55 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 13 hr |
| Mar 2, 9:36 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 54 min |
| Mar 3, 3:40 AM EST | Flood Watch | TAE | 14 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:51 AM EST | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 18 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:47 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| Mar 3, 7:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Mar 3, 10:12 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Mar 3, 12:04 PM EST | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:38 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | 10 hr |
| Mar 3, 9:42 PM EST | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 20 hr |
| Mar 4, 3:01 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 15 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 23 min |
| Apr 3, 5:42 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Apr 5, 2:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 4:49 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Apr 7, 3:01 PM EDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | TAE | 19 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:22 PM EDT | Dense Smoke Advisory | TAE | 12 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:33 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | 16 hr |
| Apr 23, 3:09 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | 16 hr |
| May 6, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| May 6, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 39 min |
| May 6, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 44 min |
| May 9, 12:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 9, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 37 min |
| May 14, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 37 min |
| May 14, 7:03 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | TAE | 3 hr |
| May 22, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
| May 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 37 min |
| May 22, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 47 min |
| May 22, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 38 min |
| May 22, 6:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 53 min |
| May 22, 8:01 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| May 27, 2:17 PM EDT | Hurricane Local Statement | TAE | 21 hr |
| May 27, 3:38 PM EDT | Flood Watch | TAE | 37 hr |
| May 31, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 50 min |
| Jun 1, 11:25 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 4, 6:33 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jun 4, 9:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 4, 1:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jun 5, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jun 5, 3:34 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jun 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Jun 5, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 43 min |
| Jun 5, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 6:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 37 min |
| Jun 5, 7:26 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jun 10, 3:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 88 min |
| Jun 10, 6:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 55 min |
| Jun 11, 1:22 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Jun 11, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 49 min |
| Jun 14, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 30 min |
| Jun 14, 3:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 39 min |
| Jun 29, 2:56 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | TAE | 70 hr |
| Jun 30, 12:17 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | TAE | 8 hr |
| Jul 1, 12:26 PM EDT | Excessive Heat Warning | TAE | 8 hr |
| Jul 1, 9:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 60 min |
| Jul 1, 10:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 64 min |
| Jul 3, 6:59 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 3, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 42 min |
| Jul 6, 1:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jul 6, 1:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 58 min |
| Jul 17, 12:21 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 84 min |
| Jul 17, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jul 17, 3:45 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jul 22, 4:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 22, 8:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 29 min |
| Jul 22, 8:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 47 min |
| Jul 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | TAE | 27 hr |
| Jul 24, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 23 min |
| Jul 25, 1:39 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 1:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 26, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 32 min |
| Jul 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 60 min |
| Aug 2, 1:11 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 64 min |
| Aug 2, 4:24 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Aug 7, 3:32 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | 24 hr |
| Aug 22, 6:40 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | 14 hr |
| Aug 29, 12:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 44 min |
| Aug 29, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 31 min |
| Aug 31, 2:08 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | TAE | 26 hr |
| Sep 4, 3:24 AM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | 34 hr |
| Sep 8, 2:03 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Sep 17, 6:14 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 18, 8:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 66 min |
| Sep 21, 7:37 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 2 hr |
| Sep 27, 5:40 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 4 hr |
| Oct 1, 1:52 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 53 min |
| Oct 10, 6:03 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 4 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:28 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | 29 hr |
| Oct 29, 4:03 PM EDT | Red Flag Warning | TAE | 28 hr |
| Oct 30, 10:16 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | 9 hr |
| Oct 30, 3:07 PM EDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | 13 hr |
| Nov 4, 2:34 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Nov 8, 2:17 PM EST | Frost Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Nov 23, 3:52 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 22 hr |
| Nov 24, 1:36 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 31 hr |
| Nov 24, 1:33 PM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 25 hr |
| Nov 25, 2:51 PM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 18 hr |
| Nov 27, 11:28 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 6 hr |
| Dec 3, 2:32 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 7 hr |
| Dec 4, 1:32 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 8 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:54 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 7 hr |
| Dec 8, 6:50 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 14 hr |
| Dec 9, 9:25 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 12 hr |
| Dec 16, 6:04 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 4 hr |
| Dec 17, 11:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Dec 17, 1:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 17, 1:47 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 43 min |
| Dec 20, 3:50 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 24 hr |
| Dec 20, 9:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Dec 20, 2:31 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 59 min |
| Dec 21, 3:56 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 23 hr |
| Dec 21, 3:56 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 29 hr |
| Dec 22, 3:04 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 30 hr |
| Dec 22, 2:00 PM EST | Hard Freeze Warning | TAE | 19 hr |
| Dec 24, 10:22 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 12 hr |
| Dec 25, 6:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Dec 25, 8:09 PM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Dec 26, 4:49 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 56 min |
| Dec 28, 1:28 PM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 25 hr |
| Dec 29, 2:44 PM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 17 hr |
| Dec 30, 5:27 AM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 9 hr |
| Dec 30, 2:18 PM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 19 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 | 28 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 41 |
| Special Weather Statement | 11 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 2 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 3 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 3 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 2 |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 7 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 4 |
| Freeze Watch | 7 |
| Hard Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 1 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 11 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 13 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 12 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 21 |
| Dense Smoke Advisory | 2 |
| Tropical | |
| Hurricane Local Statement | 1 |
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.