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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Saline County, Illinois, 2011

17 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2011. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Saline County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
17
Busiest month
April7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 19, 20113 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.

9 of 17 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Saline County in 2011 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 1 of 3 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 17 minutes after it went out.

Saline County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings17947%333%17 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Paducah, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings37613564%48658%22 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 27, 8:53 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH25 min
Apr 15, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH50 min
Apr 15, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH34 min
Apr 15, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH44 min
Apr 19, 8:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH55 min
Apr 23, 12:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH50 min
Apr 25, 12:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH17 min
Apr 25, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH45 min
May 23, 4:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH40 min
May 23, 5:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH43 min
May 25, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH65 min
Jun 17, 1:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH45 min
Jun 19, 3:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH49 min
Jun 19, 4:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH39 min
Jun 19, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH49 min
Nov 14, 6:14 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH46 min
Nov 20, 11:44 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH31 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20102012

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.