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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rice County, Kansas, 2019

51 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2019. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Rice County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
51
Busiest month
May18 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 12, 20196 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.

35 of 51 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Rice County in 2019 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 36 of 41 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 27 minutes after it went out.

Rice County, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings513531%4188%27 min

Each office's whole area, 2019

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings39321246%60986%28 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 21, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
Apr 21, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT34 min
Apr 28, 10:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
Apr 28, 11:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT56 min
Apr 29, 1:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
May 5, 5:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT54 min
May 5, 5:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT57 min
May 5, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
May 6, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT43 min
May 6, 8:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT21 min
May 6, 11:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT67 min
May 7, 12:28 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
May 17, 11:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT43 min
May 18, 7:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
May 18, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT61 min
May 21, 3:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT61 min
May 21, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT25 min
May 25, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
May 26, 5:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
May 26, 8:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT38 min
May 26, 11:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT80 min
May 27, 12:58 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT32 min
May 28, 9:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT35 min
Jun 9, 1:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT89 min
Jun 9, 2:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT45 min
Jun 11, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT61 min
Jun 11, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT59 min
Jun 11, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
Jun 11, 9:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT20 min
Jun 11, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT39 min
Jun 11, 11:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT45 min
Jun 14, 11:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT63 min
Jun 22, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
Jun 22, 2:41 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT51 min
Jun 22, 2:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
Jun 22, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
Jul 28, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT58 min
Jul 31, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT64 min
Aug 13, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
Aug 16, 9:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT34 min
Aug 17, 9:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT80 min
Aug 17, 11:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT44 min
Aug 17, 11:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT65 min
Aug 20, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT55 min
Aug 20, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
Aug 20, 8:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
Aug 24, 11:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
Aug 25, 12:45 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
Aug 29, 10:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT75 min
Sep 27, 7:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT56 min
Sep 27, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT66 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.