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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Jasper County, Iowa, 2017

20 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2017. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Jasper County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
20
Busiest month
June10 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 17, 20173 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.

12 of 20 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Jasper County in 2017 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 7 of 9 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 18 minutes after it went out.

Jasper County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings201240%978%18 min

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Des Moines, IA: severe thunderstorm warnings27515444%52283%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
Mar 6, 7:07 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX53 min
Mar 6, 7:40 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX54 min
Apr 10, 12:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX23 min
Apr 15, 7:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX64 min
Apr 15, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX20 min
May 17, 4:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX43 min
May 17, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX63 min
May 17, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX67 min
Jun 15, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX23 min
Jun 15, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX52 min
Jun 15, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX36 min
Jun 16, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX34 min
Jun 22, 10:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX46 min
Jun 28, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX49 min
Jun 28, 5:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX24 min
Jun 28, 5:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX2 min
Jun 29, 9:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX22 min
Jun 29, 9:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX33 min
Jul 20, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX56 min
Oct 21, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDMX24 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.