Alert archive / Kansas

Weather alerts in Jewell County, Kansas

4,080 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Jewell County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,080
Warnings
1,298
Watches
763
Advisories
739
Busiest year
2019235 alerts
Average year
100over 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, 78% of tornado reports in Jewell County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 16 minutes before, and 76% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813469%683%19 min
20107357%3100%17 min
201130100%0
20127186%1100%4 min
20133167%0
201420100%0
201514471%650%12 min
201840100%0
20193167%2100%21 min
202010100%0
202310100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008522160%1776%17 min
2009141029%888%15 min
2010452349%3174%21 min
2011421857%1580%22 min
2012341944%2065%13 min
2013211052%1362%15 min
2014372630%1688%22 min
2015341362%1486%22 min
2016462546%2181%21 min
2017331845%9100%20 min
201820670%8100%24 min
2019452447%1989%19 min
2020231152%1979%24 min
2021231152%367%21 min
202219668%2100%9 min
2023372143%1385%27 min
2024281739%3100%15 min
202518856%6100%35 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200870100%0
20103233%0
2014110%0
20162150%0
201810100%0
201910100%0
20202150%1100%169 min
202410100%0
20252150%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
Sep 30, 9:33 PM CDTRiver Flood WarningGID31 hr
Sep 30, 9:28 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningGID15 hr
Sep 30, 9:07 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningGID15 hr
Sep 30, 5:40 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningGID19 hr
Sep 30, 9:32 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningGID8 hr
Sep 25, 11:18 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningGID6 hr
Sep 14, 5:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID42 min
Sep 14, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatGID46 min
Sep 14, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID39 min
Sep 12, 2:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID40 min
Aug 22, 5:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID50 min
Aug 16, 2:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID42 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.