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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Henry County, Illinois, 2017

19 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2017. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Henry County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
19
Busiest month
March5 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 18, 20173 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.

17 of 19 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Henry County in 2017 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 13 of 16 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 13 minutes after it went out.

Henry County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings191711%1681%13 min

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Quad Cities, IA: severe thunderstorm warnings19715223%50578%27 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 28, 4:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN35 min
Feb 28, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN28 min
Feb 28, 8:32 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN30 min
Mar 6, 10:26 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN49 min
Mar 6, 11:13 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN77 min
Mar 20, 12:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN34 min
May 17, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN38 min
May 17, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN67 min
May 17, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN52 min
Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN60 min
Jun 15, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN59 min
Jun 15, 10:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN56 min
Jun 17, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN40 min
Jun 19, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN24 min
Jul 20, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN35 min
Jul 21, 7:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN57 min
Aug 10, 5:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN45 min
Aug 10, 6:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN55 min
Sep 20, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN47 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.