Weather alerts in Lincoln County, Kansas, 2011

213 weather alerts in 2011, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Lincoln County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 213
Warnings: 87
Watches: 38
Advisories: 46
Busiest month: May62 alerts
Busiest day: June 2, 201117 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

4 of 8 tornado warnings covering Lincoln County in 2011 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 13 minutes after it went out.

Lincoln County, 2011

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	8	4	50%	1	100%	13 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	30	18	40%	27	78%	29 min
Flash flood warnings	5	5	0%	12	92%	382 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: tornado warnings	44	12	73%	18	78%	17 min
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings	433	265	39%	850	86%	27 min
NWS Wichita, KS: flash flood warnings	9	8	11%	23	96%	247 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 7, 2:50 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	13 hr
Jan 7, 3:55 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ICT	48 hr
Jan 9, 4:11 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	43 hr
Jan 10, 3:37 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Jan 11, 3:03 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ICT	32 hr
Jan 19, 4:12 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	30 hr
Jan 30, 4:00 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	52 hr
Feb 1, 4:02 PM CST	Wind Chill Warning	ICT	20 hr
Feb 2, 4:17 AM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Feb 7, 3:47 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	30 hr
Feb 8, 2:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Feb 8, 3:39 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ICT	32 hr
Feb 8, 10:11 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	6 hr
Feb 9, 3:13 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ICT	18 hr
Feb 16, 3:54 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	26 hr
Feb 19, 3:20 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	24 hr
Feb 20, 3:51 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	12 hr
Feb 23, 3:59 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	24 hr
Feb 24, 3:55 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ICT	17 hr
Feb 25, 8:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	18 hr
Feb 26, 9:11 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	18 hr
Mar 6, 4:13 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ICT	35 hr
Mar 7, 3:24 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ICT	20 hr
Mar 7, 3:24 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	23 hr
Mar 13, 6:28 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	11 hr
Mar 20, 2:48 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	25 hr
Mar 21, 3:55 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Mar 22, 4:00 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Mar 23, 3:47 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	14 hr
Mar 23, 12:21 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	6 hr
Mar 31, 7:36 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	10 hr
Apr 1, 4:07 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	24 hr
Apr 1, 2:56 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	25 hr
Apr 2, 4:08 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	16 hr
Apr 2, 3:12 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	50 hr
Apr 2, 3:26 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	32 hr
Apr 4, 3:08 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	14 hr
Apr 4, 5:06 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	10 hr
Apr 5, 2:40 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	16 hr
Apr 8, 6:07 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	5 hr
Apr 8, 4:10 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	24 hr
Apr 9, 4:10 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	15 hr
Apr 9, 3:55 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	29 hr
Apr 9, 4:28 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	26 hr
Apr 13, 3:48 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	ICT	23 hr
Apr 14, 12:34 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Apr 14, 2:10 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 14, 3:11 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	37 hr
Apr 14, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	61 min
Apr 14, 6:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Apr 15, 3:34 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	ICT	17 hr
Apr 22, 2:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	39 min
Apr 22, 2:48 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Apr 28, 3:26 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	41 hr
Apr 29, 1:01 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	7 hr
May 1, 2:59 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	ICT	12 hr
May 4, 12:36 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	6 hr
May 11, 11:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
May 11, 11:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
May 11, 12:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 15, 9:19 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	ICT	11 hr
May 18, 10:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 19, 1:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
May 19, 1:43 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 19, 3:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	61 min
May 19, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	30 min
May 19, 5:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	34 min
May 19, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	33 min
May 19, 5:42 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 19, 5:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	26 min
May 19, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	62 min
May 19, 6:18 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	6 hr
May 19, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	18 min
May 19, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	26 min
May 19, 8:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
May 19, 8:46 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 19, 9:36 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
May 19, 9:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	24 hr
May 19, 11:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 19, 11:59 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	39 min
May 19, 11:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	61 min
May 20, 12:19 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	6 hr
May 20, 5:44 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	25 hr
May 20, 1:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
May 20, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 20, 6:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
May 21, 6:49 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	14 hr
May 21, 8:44 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	28 hr
May 21, 2:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
May 21, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 21, 7:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
May 24, 6:21 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
May 24, 6:51 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
May 24, 7:45 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	60 min
May 24, 9:18 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
May 24, 12:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
May 24, 3:14 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr
May 24, 5:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
May 24, 5:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	37 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	52 hr
May 24, 7:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	30 min
May 24, 7:57 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	33 min
May 25, 4:26 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	15 hr
May 26, 7:42 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
May 26, 8:11 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	49 hr
May 26, 10:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	12 hr
May 27, 10:44 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	23 hr
May 28, 3:31 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	ICT	37 hr
May 29, 11:49 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	19 hr
May 29, 4:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	24 min
May 29, 4:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 29, 6:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
May 30, 4:11 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	19 hr
May 30, 8:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
May 30, 8:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch PDS	SPC	5 hr
May 30, 10:38 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 30, 10:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	67 min
Jun 1, 4:45 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 1, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	31 min
Jun 1, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	58 min
Jun 1, 7:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Jun 1, 8:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	53 min
Jun 1, 8:32 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	9 hr
Jun 1, 8:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	54 min
Jun 1, 8:56 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	26 min
Jun 1, 9:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	54 min
Jun 1, 9:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	42 min
Jun 1, 10:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	12 hr
Jun 1, 10:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	53 min
Jun 1, 10:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	4 days
Jun 1, 11:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	35 min
Jun 1, 11:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Jun 2, 12:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	67 hr
Jun 2, 4:03 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	16 hr
Jun 2, 9:53 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	ICT	5 hr
Jun 2, 2:54 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	30 hr
Jun 7, 10:24 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	10 hr
Jun 16, 8:43 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	29 min
Jun 16, 6:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 16, 7:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	64 min
Jun 16, 8:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	50 min
Jun 16, 9:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	66 min
Jun 16, 11:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Jun 16, 11:15 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	2 hr
Jun 17, 6:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Jun 17, 8:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 18, 12:20 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	55 min
Jun 18, 1:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	65 min
Jun 18, 2:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	53 min
Jun 18, 8:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
Jun 18, 9:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
Jun 20, 7:05 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	8 hr
Jun 21, 3:27 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	14 hr
Jun 28, 3:07 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	ICT	48 hr
Jun 29, 2:57 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	4 days
Jul 2, 8:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	49 min
Jul 2, 9:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	31 min
Jul 2, 10:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	29 min
Jul 2, 10:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jul 3, 1:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Jul 5, 10:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 9, 3:40 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	41 hr
Jul 14, 3:30 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	ICT	23 hr
Jul 15, 2:38 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	ICT	14 days
Jul 21, 3:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Jul 21, 10:16 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Jul 22, 6:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	40 min
Jul 27, 5:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Jul 28, 10:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 29, 3:16 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Watch	ICT	13 hr
Jul 29, 3:55 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	ICT	35 hr
Jul 31, 2:34 AM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	ICT	5 days
Jul 31, 2:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	57 min
Aug 5, 2:27 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	48 min
Aug 5, 3:06 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	39 min
Aug 7, 10:48 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Aug 7, 10:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 7, 11:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Aug 9, 6:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
Aug 9, 11:11 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	94 min
Aug 10, 2:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	63 min
Aug 18, 5:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
Aug 19, 8:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	40 min
Aug 30, 3:41 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	23 hr
Sep 1, 3:57 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Oct 3, 3:51 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	12 hr
Oct 4, 4:01 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	33 hr
Oct 4, 4:01 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	16 hr
Oct 5, 11:25 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	8 hr
Oct 5, 3:18 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	13 hr
Oct 5, 3:25 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	28 hr
Oct 6, 4:07 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	15 hr
Oct 7, 3:44 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Oct 18, 3:35 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	ICT	24 hr
Oct 19, 3:51 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ICT	29 hr
Oct 24, 3:36 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	15 hr
Oct 24, 3:36 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Nov 1, 3:28 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	34 hr
Nov 2, 3:36 AM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	19 hr
Nov 4, 3:50 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	39 hr
Nov 4, 3:53 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	12 hr
Nov 4, 3:26 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Nov 25, 3:41 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	38 hr
Nov 25, 4:05 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	24 hr
Nov 25, 3:43 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	26 hr
Dec 1, 9:51 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	6 hr
Dec 1, 4:02 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	35 hr
Dec 3, 3:14 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	17 hr
Dec 17, 3:47 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ICT	24 hr
Dec 18, 4:01 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ICT	46 hr
Dec 19, 5:56 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Dec 30, 2:53 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	33 hr
Dec 31, 4:01 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	16 hr

By product

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

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	29
Tornado Warning	8
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	14
Tornado Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	42
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	7
Flash Flood Warning	5
River Flood Warning	7
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	4
Winter Storm Watch	3
Winter Weather Advisory	11
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	3
Excessive Heat Watch	3
Heat Advisory	4
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Wind Chill Warning	1
Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	2
Wind Chill Advisory	4
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	3
High Wind Watch	2
Wind Advisory	23
Fire
Red Flag Warning	18
Fire Weather Watch	10
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	2

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2010 2012

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.