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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Barton County, Kansas, 2023

29 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
29
Busiest month
July7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 9, 20233 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.

17 of 29 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Barton County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 40 of 42 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 27 minutes after it went out.

Barton County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings291741%4295%27 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings25512850%37887%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 14, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT21 min
Apr 14, 6:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT52 min
Apr 14, 7:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT31 min
Apr 20, 1:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT45 min
May 9, 1:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT54 min
May 9, 3:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT78 min
May 9, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT51 min
May 30, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT45 min
Jun 9, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT67 min
Jun 9, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT42 min
Jun 10, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT55 min
Jun 10, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT27 min
Jun 17, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT22 min
Jun 17, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT55 min
Jul 10, 11:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT42 min
Jul 14, 12:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT78 min
Jul 14, 1:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
Jul 14, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT56 min
Jul 16, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatICT38 min
Jul 16, 5:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatICT54 min
Jul 16, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT24 min
Aug 5, 10:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT50 min
Aug 7, 9:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
Aug 7, 9:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT19 min
Aug 9, 1:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT90 min
Aug 9, 2:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT86 min
Aug 9, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT66 min
Oct 3, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT38 min
Oct 3, 6:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT38 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.