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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in White County, Illinois, 2023

26 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

White County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
26
Busiest month
July14 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 2, 20236 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.

15 of 26 severe thunderstorm warnings covering White County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 1 of 4 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 20 minutes after it went out.

White County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings261542%425%20 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Paducah, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings49522754%54479%21 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 12, 1:58 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH26 min
Feb 9, 3:26 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH39 min
Mar 3, 11:55 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH65 min
Mar 31, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH14 min
Mar 31, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH44 min
Mar 31, 10:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH38 min
May 7, 10:51 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH24 min
May 7, 3:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH52 min
Jun 29, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH57 min
Jun 29, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH65 min
Jul 1, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH44 min
Jul 1, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH32 min
Jul 1, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH51 min
Jul 1, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH44 min
Jul 1, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPAH18 min
Jul 2, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH47 min
Jul 2, 1:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH51 min
Jul 2, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH48 min
Jul 2, 2:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH47 min
Jul 2, 2:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH41 min
Jul 2, 4:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH43 min
Jul 14, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH33 min
Jul 29, 8:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH26 min
Jul 29, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH68 min
Aug 6, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH43 min
Aug 7, 12:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH39 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.