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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wilcox County, Georgia

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

Wilcox County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
314
Busiest year
202319 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
8over 40 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, 78% of hail, wind and damage reports in Wilcox County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 17 minutes before, and 62% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811555%4100%25 min
200914379%367%18 min
201015567%650%10 min
201114657%683%9 min
201211555%1100%6 min
20139811%2100%38 min
201410550%0
20157271%10%
201610550%1100%3 min
201710460%978%19 min
201812467%2100%23 min
201916756%540%3 min
202014564%3100%22 min
20214175%1100%15 min
202216944%5100%16 min
202319668%0
202418383%0
202515287%0

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, 4:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC39 min
Aug 13, 2:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC28 min
Jul 18, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC20 min
Jul 10, 8:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC41 min
Jun 20, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC40 min
Jun 18, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC64 min
Jun 18, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC32 min
May 25, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC15 min
Mar 12, 7:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC50 min
Mar 12, 6:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC49 min
Mar 12, 6:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFFC41 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.