Alert archive / Georgia / Quitman County
Weather alerts in Quitman County, Georgia, 2017
88 weather alerts in 2017, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Quitman County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 88
- Warnings
- 18
- Watches
- 18
- Advisories
- 22
- Busiest month
- January26 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 5, 201712 alerts
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 1 tornado warnings covering Quitman County in 2017 had a tornado report inside them.
Quitman County, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 1 | 0% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 10 | 4 | 60% | 3 | 100% | 33 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 0 | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2017
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Tallahassee, FL: tornado warnings | 80 | 24 | 70% | 57 | 84% | 15 min |
| NWS Tallahassee, FL: severe thunderstorm warnings | 276 | 174 | 37% | 492 | 86% | 24 min |
| NWS Tallahassee, FL: flash flood warnings | 16 | 11 | 31% | 20 | 100% | 80 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, 6:44 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jan 2, 1:40 AM EST | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | 25 hr |
| Jan 2, 1:59 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jan 2, 4:46 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jan 2, 5:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 31 min |
| Jan 2, 6:36 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jan 2, 9:26 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 64 min |
| Jan 6, 9:38 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | TAE | 14 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:43 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Jan 7, 2:59 PM EST | Hard Freeze Warning | TAE | 18 hr |
| Jan 18, 2:23 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 9 hr |
| Jan 18, 11:46 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 11 hr |
| Jan 21, 8:41 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 94 min |
| Jan 21, 9:04 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:19 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 86 min |
| Jan 21, 10:40 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 50 min |
| Jan 21, 11:20 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 40 min |
| Jan 21, 7:51 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:30 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jan 21, 10:57 PM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Jan 22, 12:49 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| Jan 22, 2:55 AM EST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Jan 22, 3:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 9 hr |
| Jan 22, 3:39 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 14 hr |
| Jan 22, 12:47 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Jan 23, 2:02 AM EST | Wind Advisory | TAE | 14 hr |
| Feb 3, 5:00 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 5 hr |
| Feb 19, 3:15 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 7 hr |
| Mar 10, 6:02 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 58 min |
| Mar 14, 2:23 PM EDT | Freeze Watch | TAE | 13 hr |
| Mar 14, 2:23 PM EDT | Freeze Warning | TAE | 19 hr |
| Mar 15, 3:00 AM EDT | Freeze Warning | TAE | 31 hr |
| Mar 16, 2:51 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:06 AM EDT | Wind Advisory | TAE | 12 hr |
| Apr 3, 10:25 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 65 min |
| Apr 3, 10:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 47 min |
| Apr 5, 2:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 17 min |
| Apr 5, 3:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 15 min |
| Apr 5, 4:41 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 5:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 35 min |
| Apr 5, 7:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Apr 5, 7:54 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:43 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 5, 11:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 39 min |
| Apr 5, 12:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | TAE | 26 min |
| Apr 5, 12:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:12 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Apr 5, 9:58 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 3 hr |
| Apr 22, 4:45 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 5 hr |
| Apr 23, 12:02 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Apr 27, 10:42 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Apr 27, 4:23 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| Apr 27, 9:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BMX | 37 min |
| May 1, 8:15 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 23, 9:38 AM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 23, 10:10 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| May 24, 11:03 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 10 hr |
| May 24, 2:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jun 6, 10:23 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | 112 min |
| Jun 22, 4:48 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 87 min |
| Jul 7, 6:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 53 min |
| Jul 8, 2:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 38 min |
| Jul 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | TAE | 31 min |
| Jul 16, 3:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | TAE | 62 min |
| Jul 20, 1:44 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:10 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 35 min |
| Aug 30, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TAE | 45 min |
| Sep 9, 5:23 AM EDT | Tropical Storm Watch | TAE | 12 hr |
| Sep 9, 11:29 AM EDT | Hurricane Warning | TAE | 45 hr |
| Sep 9, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | TAE | 50 hr |
| Sep 9, 5:32 PM EDT | Tropical Storm Warning | TAE | 52 hr |
| Oct 29, 2:40 PM EDT | Frost Advisory | TAE | 18 hr |
| Nov 29, 5:07 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 6 hr |
| Dec 2, 1:01 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 9 hr |
| Dec 3, 2:21 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 7 hr |
| Dec 8, 2:34 PM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 14 hr |
| Dec 9, 4:54 AM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 28 hr |
| Dec 9, 2:16 PM EST | Freeze Watch | TAE | 23 hr |
| Dec 10, 12:47 PM EST | Freeze Warning | TAE | 19 hr |
| Dec 18, 8:27 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 93 min |
| Dec 18, 6:05 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 16 hr |
| Dec 19, 6:21 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 15 hr |
| Dec 21, 4:25 AM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 6 hr |
| Dec 21, 8:19 PM EST | Dense Fog Advisory | TAE | 14 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 | 10 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 10 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 24 |
| Special Weather Statement | 6 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 2 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 4 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 3 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 13 |
| Tropical | |
| Hurricane Warning | 1 |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 1 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 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.