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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Elbert County, Georgia, 2008

22 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Elbert County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
22
Busiest month
July7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
March 4, 20083 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

13 of 22 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Elbert County in 2008 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 19 of 21 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 24 minutes after it went out.

Elbert County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings221341%2190%24 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Greenville-Spartanburg, SC: severe thunderstorm warnings42524143%47576%26 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 26, 7:42 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP42 min
Mar 4, 4:07 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP68 min
Mar 4, 5:14 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP76 min
Mar 4, 6:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP47 min
Mar 15, 7:59 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP46 min
Mar 15, 3:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP54 min
Mar 15, 5:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP37 min
Apr 4, 7:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP75 min
May 11, 2:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP33 min
Jun 9, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP37 min
Jun 15, 10:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP40 min
Jun 23, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP49 min
Jul 9, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP67 min
Jul 21, 7:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP44 min
Jul 23, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP58 min
Jul 23, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP44 min
Jul 23, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP23 min
Jul 27, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP67 min
Jul 30, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP30 min
Aug 2, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP77 min
Aug 7, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP71 min
Dec 10, 11:48 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGSP42 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.