Alert archive / Kansas

Weather alerts in Gove County, Kansas

4,626 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Gove County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
4,626
Warnings
1,583
Watches
819
Advisories
771
Busiest year
2011266 alerts
Average year
113over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 76% of tornado reports in Gove County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 24 minutes before, and 66% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008191237%1493%26 min
2009110%450%9 min
201016850%7100%33 min
20119189%20%
20133167%250%14 min
201410100%10%
201513562%1493%23 min
20164175%1100%9 min
201713285%540%23 min
201840100%0
202130100%0
20224175%10%
202320100%10%
20247186%250%4 min
20256350%4100%21 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008452349%3070%27 min
2009221627%1894%27 min
2010261254%888%21 min
2011331167%475%21 min
201216756%771%31 min
201330777%367%22 min
2014441957%2383%26 min
201534876%757%27 min
2016521767%2374%25 min
2017422150%3080%17 min
2018531768%3177%21 min
2019372338%1989%27 min
202018950%1090%22 min
2021211148%838%9 min
2022221055%450%20 min
2023371268%4951%30 min
2024482254%6563%27 min
2025341459%1663%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20085180%250%258 min
20095340%1100%210 min
20105340%580%134 min
20113233%0
201210100%0
201320100%0
20145180%10%
201520100%0
20164325%367%5 min
20177357%683%75 min
201810460%6100%136 min
20197271%10%
2020220%3100%48 min
202130100%0
202360100%0
2024110%2100%75 min
202530100%0

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 28, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD60 min
Aug 21, 12:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatGLD42 min
Aug 20, 11:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLD70 min
Aug 19, 10:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD57 min
Aug 19, 5:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD44 min
Aug 19, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD63 min
Jul 27, 6:33 PM CDTBlowing Dust WarningGLD89 min
Jul 23, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD48 min
Jul 9, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD66 min
Jul 9, 9:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGLD42 min
Jul 4, 1:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD51 min
Jul 2, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGLD50 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.