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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Henry County, Indiana

418 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. 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 since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
418
Busiest year
202633 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
10over 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, 65% of hail, wind and damage reports in Henry County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 18 minutes before, and 37% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008211243%888%26 min
200911645%450%9 min
201011555%2100%16 min
2011301260%1625%20 min
2012251636%9100%15 min
2013141121%4100%31 min
20148625%20%
201512650%367%34 min
201615660%2100%4 min
201712833%2100%15 min
20186183%475%11 min
201914137%825%3 min
202010730%367%17 min
20219722%683%23 min
2022770%0
2023161413%2100%7 min
20247614%367%28 min
2025261638%1100%3 min

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
Sep 20, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND38 min
Sep 5, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND31 min
Aug 19, 8:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND41 min
Aug 19, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND48 min
Aug 14, 1:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND26 min
Aug 14, 12:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND52 min
Aug 11, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND63 min
Aug 11, 9:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND30 min
Aug 11, 8:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND55 min
Aug 11, 8:00 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND45 min
Jul 27, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND50 min
Jun 11, 11:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningIND57 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.