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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Scott County, Illinois, 2008

21 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Scott County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
21
Busiest month
June8 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 3, 20083 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 21 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Scott County in 2008 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 6 of 6 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 22 minutes after it went out.

Scott County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings21957%6100%22 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Lincoln, IL: severe thunderstorm warnings29912060%39176%24 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
Jan 7, 5:35 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX40 min
Jan 7, 6:39 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX51 min
Jan 7, 9:10 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX50 min
Apr 25, 4:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX38 min
Apr 25, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX46 min
May 25, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX41 min
May 30, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX30 min
Jun 2, 10:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX52 min
Jun 3, 4:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX47 min
Jun 3, 10:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX34 min
Jun 3, 7:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX65 min
Jun 22, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX50 min
Jun 22, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX24 min
Jun 22, 5:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX15 min
Jun 27, 1:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX54 min
Jul 27, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX60 min
Jul 27, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX61 min
Aug 5, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX65 min
Sep 13, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX58 min
Dec 27, 10:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX65 min
Dec 27, 11:24 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILX66 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.