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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Davis County, Iowa, 2024

32 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Davis County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
32
Busiest month
July11 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 30, 20245 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.

14 of 32 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Davis County in 2024 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 6 of 6 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

Davis County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings321456%6100%21 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Des Moines, IA: severe thunderstorm warnings32116150%41778%25 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
Apr 16, 11:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX37 min
Apr 16, 1:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX47 min
Apr 16, 2:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX35 min
Apr 16, 2:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX51 min
Apr 27, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX52 min
Apr 27, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX49 min
Apr 27, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX29 min
Apr 30, 7:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX55 min
Apr 30, 8:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX44 min
Apr 30, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX36 min
May 7, 1:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX64 min
May 7, 2:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX49 min
May 21, 6:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX28 min
May 24, 2:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX59 min
May 26, 1:38 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX37 min
Jun 13, 2:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX50 min
Jun 13, 3:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX17 min
Jun 13, 3:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX43 min
Jun 13, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX45 min
Jun 25, 8:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX48 min
Jul 2, 5:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX39 min
Jul 15, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX54 min
Jul 30, 3:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX65 min
Jul 30, 4:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX26 min
Jul 30, 4:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX19 min
Jul 30, 10:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX78 min
Jul 30, 3:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDMX59 min
Jul 31, 3:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX48 min
Jul 31, 4:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX25 min
Jul 31, 10:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX47 min
Jul 31, 11:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX48 min
Oct 30, 7:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX67 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.