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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Rush County, Kansas, 2013

25 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2013. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Rush County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
25
Busiest month
May10 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 8, 20135 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.

18 of 25 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Rush County in 2013 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 14 of 16 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 22 minutes after it went out.

Rush County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings251828%1688%22 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Dodge City, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings29120231%42183%24 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
Mar 30, 12:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC49 min
Mar 30, 1:03 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC42 min
Mar 30, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC48 min
Apr 7, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC66 min
Apr 7, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC44 min
Apr 9, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC43 min
May 7, 7:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC39 min
May 7, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC46 min
May 7, 8:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC43 min
May 7, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC46 min
May 7, 10:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC44 min
May 8, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC44 min
May 8, 7:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC52 min
May 30, 2:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC47 min
May 30, 3:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC45 min
May 30, 4:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC40 min
Jun 8, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC51 min
Jun 8, 3:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC65 min
Jun 15, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC47 min
Jun 18, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC67 min
Aug 2, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC60 min
Aug 2, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC63 min
Aug 5, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC55 min
Oct 14, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC47 min
Oct 14, 4:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDDC46 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20122014

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.