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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Toombs 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.

Toombs County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
247
Busiest year
199818 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
7over 36 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, 72% of hail, wind and damage reports in Toombs County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 50% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087271%250%37 min
200913192%1100%19 min
20107357%3100%14 min
2011141121%5100%18 min
20127614%771%9 min
20138713%3100%5 min
20149544%863%14 min
2015440%367%30 min
20167614%3100%18 min
201714843%729%19 min
20189544%10%
20196267%0
20209722%1471%9 min
202110100%0
202213469%250%18 min
202312467%2100%9 min
20248538%580%20 min
202514193%2100%3 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 21, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC50 min
Aug 21, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC45 min
Jul 20, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC44 min
Jul 17, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC55 min
Mar 12, 8:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC36 min
Mar 12, 8:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC42 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.