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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Barton County, Kansas, 2018

31 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2018. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Barton County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
31
Busiest month
May12 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 1, 20184 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.

16 of 31 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Barton County in 2018 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 24 of 27 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 24 minutes after it went out.

Barton County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings311648%2789%24 min

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings24911155%30978%23 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
May 1, 5:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
May 1, 5:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT10 min
May 1, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT48 min
May 1, 6:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT30 min
May 2, 2:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT72 min
May 2, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT34 min
May 13, 9:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
May 18, 9:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT56 min
May 25, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT61 min
May 28, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT64 min
May 29, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT61 min
May 29, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
Jun 12, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT57 min
Jun 12, 7:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT32 min
Jun 19, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT74 min
Jun 19, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT65 min
Jun 26, 8:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT46 min
Jun 26, 9:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT63 min
Jun 30, 11:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT64 min
Jun 30, 11:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT49 min
Jul 29, 1:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT43 min
Jul 29, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
Aug 16, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
Aug 19, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT44 min
Sep 2, 4:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT66 min
Sep 20, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT41 min
Oct 5, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT30 min
Oct 5, 7:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT17 min
Oct 5, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT26 min
Oct 5, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT33 min
Oct 5, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT24 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.