Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Meade County, Kansas

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

Meade County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 822
Busiest year: 201941 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year: 20over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 77% of hail, wind and damage reports in Meade County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 25 minutes before, and 43% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
2008	40	22	45%	10	90%	22 min
2009	29	21	28%	15	93%	27 min
2010	16	13	19%	9	89%	24 min
2011	7	4	43%	7	29%	13 min
2012	21	13	38%	14	71%	18 min
2013	30	22	27%	15	93%	20 min
2014	27	24	11%	17	76%	34 min
2015	25	17	32%	18	61%	22 min
2016	21	10	52%	5	60%	36 min
2017	31	16	48%	8	88%	27 min
2018	32	17	47%	10	60%	33 min
2019	41	19	54%	10	90%	26 min
2020	24	8	67%	5	60%	14 min
2021	17	9	47%	4	75%	24 min
2022	27	11	59%	3	67%	29 min
2023	35	21	40%	9	100%	25 min
2024	36	17	53%	6	50%	22 min
2025	22	11	50%	12	83%	22 min

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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 6, 10:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	50 min
Aug 6, 9:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	50 min
Jul 23, 8:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	42 min
Jun 23, 7:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	40 min
Jun 21, 9:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	46 min
Jun 21, 9:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	52 min
Jun 21, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	44 min
Jun 13, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	18 min
Jun 12, 11:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	DDC	48 min
Jun 9, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	33 min
Jun 9, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	42 min
Jun 9, 5:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	DDC	44 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.