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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Lyon County, Kansas, 2023

37 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Lyon County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
37
Busiest month
April14 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 20, 20236 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.

16 of 37 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Lyon County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 12 of 17 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 18 minutes after it went out.

Lyon County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings371657%1771%18 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Topeka, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings26212951%37085%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
Apr 4, 7:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP51 min
Apr 4, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP34 min
Apr 4, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP49 min
Apr 14, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP47 min
Apr 14, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP34 min
Apr 14, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP33 min
Apr 15, 1:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP22 min
Apr 19, 6:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP42 min
Apr 19, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP33 min
Apr 19, 7:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP46 min
Apr 19, 8:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP46 min
Apr 19, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP34 min
Apr 19, 9:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP22 min
Apr 20, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP26 min
May 9, 2:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOP66 min
May 9, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP50 min
May 9, 3:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP30 min
May 9, 4:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP46 min
May 24, 3:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP34 min
Jun 5, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP28 min
Jun 5, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP38 min
Jun 5, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP21 min
Jun 10, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP30 min
Jun 10, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP29 min
Jun 10, 12:49 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP9 min
Jul 4, 10:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP36 min
Jul 4, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP63 min
Jul 4, 11:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP67 min
Jul 14, 2:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP41 min
Jul 30, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP54 min
Aug 6, 12:57 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP33 min
Aug 13, 5:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOP62 min
Aug 13, 6:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOP44 min
Aug 13, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTOP33 min
Sep 21, 5:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP42 min
Sep 21, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP10 min
Sep 21, 7:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTOP23 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.