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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Linn County, Kansas, 2017

21 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2017. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Linn County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
21
Busiest month
May5 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 31, 20174 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.

9 of 21 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Linn County in 2017 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 11 of 23 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 11 minutes after it went out.

Linn County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings21957%2348%11 min

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Kansas City, MO: severe thunderstorm warnings22013638%75069%22 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
Feb 28, 9:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX42 min
Mar 6, 7:55 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX35 min
Mar 6, 8:18 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX27 min
Mar 6, 8:25 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX35 min
Apr 25, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX24 min
May 26, 3:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX31 min
May 30, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX38 min
May 31, 1:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX45 min
May 31, 1:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX38 min
May 31, 2:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX55 min
Jun 17, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX50 min
Jun 17, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX28 min
Jun 17, 6:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX35 min
Jun 17, 10:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX44 min
Jul 13, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX29 min
Aug 16, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX49 min
Sep 16, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX47 min
Sep 16, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX41 min
Oct 14, 5:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX46 min
Oct 14, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX42 min
Oct 14, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX39 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.