Weather alerts in Russell County, Kansas, 2016

206 weather alerts in 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Russell County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 206
Warnings: 60
Watches: 28
Advisories: 37
Busiest month: May47 alerts
Busiest day: May 9, 201610 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

0 of 2 tornado warnings covering Russell County in 2016 had a tornado report inside them.

Russell County, 2016

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	2	0	100%	0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	32	13	59%	20	85%	32 min
Flash flood warnings	0			0

Each office's whole area, 2016

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: tornado warnings	25	13	48%	26	73%	13 min
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings	345	191	45%	556	78%	25 min
NWS Wichita, KS: flash flood warnings	27	20	26%	86	97%	133 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 7, 3:16 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	10 hr
Jan 20, 3:00 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	33 hr
Jan 24, 3:08 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	19 hr
Jan 30, 3:32 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ICT	24 hr
Jan 31, 3:22 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ICT	36 hr
Feb 1, 3:42 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	34 hr
Feb 2, 3:07 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	18 hr
Feb 7, 2:48 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	16 hr
Feb 7, 3:08 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	27 hr
Feb 16, 3:07 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	36 hr
Feb 17, 3:14 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Feb 26, 11:37 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	17 hr
Feb 27, 4:08 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	14 hr
Feb 28, 10:45 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	5 hr
Feb 28, 11:09 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	6 hr
Feb 29, 10:17 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	8 hr
Mar 5, 2:34 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	13 hr
Mar 5, 3:20 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	28 hr
Mar 5, 3:23 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Mar 6, 2:50 AM CST	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	12 hr
Mar 6, 2:50 PM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Mar 7, 2:48 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	16 hr
Mar 14, 5:05 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	10 hr
Mar 14, 3:09 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	28 hr
Mar 14, 3:12 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	28 hr
Mar 15, 3:38 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	12 hr
Mar 16, 3:34 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	15 hr
Mar 17, 10:12 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	14 hr
Mar 20, 4:05 AM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	35 hr
Mar 21, 3:26 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	17 hr
Mar 21, 3:20 PM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	30 hr
Mar 22, 3:00 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	ICT	13 hr
Mar 23, 4:02 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	ICT	20 hr
Mar 23, 8:25 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	11 hr
Mar 29, 3:53 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	17 hr
Apr 5, 5:59 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	10 hr
Apr 6, 3:29 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Apr 6, 3:36 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	15 hr
Apr 6, 4:47 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	ICT	11 hr
Apr 7, 3:43 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ICT	15 hr
Apr 7, 3:45 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	14 hr
Apr 11, 3:28 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ICT	29 hr
Apr 15, 11:10 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	8 hr
Apr 15, 3:02 PM CDT	Flood Watch	ICT	55 hr
Apr 23, 10:37 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	9 hr
Apr 24, 1:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Apr 24, 3:04 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
Apr 24, 3:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	54 min
Apr 24, 5:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	55 min
May 8, 3:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	54 min
May 8, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 8, 6:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
May 8, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	58 min
May 8, 10:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	29 min
May 8, 10:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	61 min
May 8, 11:06 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	39 min
May 8, 11:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
May 8, 11:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ICT	47 min
May 8, 11:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	67 min
May 8, 11:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
May 9, 12:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	9 hr
May 9, 9:15 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	9 hr
May 11, 2:02 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
May 11, 3:02 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	58 min
May 11, 3:58 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	62 min
May 23, 11:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
May 24, 12:08 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 24, 12:12 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	17 min
May 24, 1:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	65 min
May 24, 4:44 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	61 min
May 24, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
May 24, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	54 min
May 24, 8:26 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	64 min
May 24, 8:49 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	22 min
May 24, 9:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
May 25, 3:44 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 25, 7:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
May 26, 1:14 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	ICT	37 hr
May 26, 1:31 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	10 hr
May 26, 3:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	45 min
May 26, 3:45 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	15 hr
May 26, 7:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	43 min
May 27, 2:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 27, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	36 min
May 27, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	25 min
May 27, 7:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	57 min
May 27, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	39 min
May 27, 8:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	65 min
May 27, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	42 min
May 29, 3:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
May 29, 6:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	24 min
May 29, 6:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	64 min
May 29, 7:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	14 hr
May 29, 7:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	66 min
May 29, 8:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	53 min
May 30, 11:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	67 min
Jun 3, 7:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	41 min
Jun 3, 7:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	53 min
Jun 3, 7:59 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	20 min
Jun 15, 3:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 15, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	68 min
Jun 15, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	44 min
Jun 17, 11:55 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	9 hr
Jun 17, 8:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	22 min
Jun 17, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	64 min
Jun 17, 9:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	83 min
Jun 17, 10:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	83 min
Jun 17, 11:10 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	95 min
Jun 25, 5:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	118 min
Jun 25, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	52 min
Jun 25, 5:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	51 min
Jun 25, 7:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	54 min
Jun 25, 8:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	33 min
Jun 28, 11:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	26 min
Jun 28, 12:13 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	32 min
Jun 28, 12:39 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	36 min
Jun 28, 7:13 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jun 28, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jul 5, 4:07 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	29 hr
Jul 5, 7:31 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
Jul 5, 9:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jul 5, 11:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Jul 6, 12:04 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	26 min
Jul 6, 12:24 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	51 min
Jul 6, 9:23 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	24 hr
Jul 11, 7:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Jul 11, 10:31 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	44 min
Jul 11, 10:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 11, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	36 min
Jul 11, 11:38 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	67 min
Jul 12, 12:32 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	28 min
Jul 12, 1:19 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	26 min
Jul 12, 1:52 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	38 min
Jul 13, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jul 13, 5:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	80 min
Jul 14, 5:36 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	40 min
Jul 18, 3:20 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	ICT	4 days
Jul 18, 3:30 PM CDT	Excessive Heat Warning	ICT	6 days
Jul 28, 1:59 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 28, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jul 28, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	37 min
Jul 28, 5:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	38 min
Jul 28, 6:14 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 28, 6:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	36 min
Jul 28, 10:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	67 min
Jul 28, 11:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	29 min
Jul 29, 12:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	60 min
Jul 31, 12:49 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	26 min
Aug 4, 4:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Aug 5, 5:11 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	49 min
Aug 11, 3:49 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Aug 11, 4:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	26 min
Aug 11, 4:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	50 min
Aug 11, 4:57 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	48 min
Aug 11, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	53 min
Aug 11, 6:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	50 min
Aug 11, 7:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	46 min
Aug 19, 1:36 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
Aug 19, 1:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Aug 19, 2:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	25 min
Aug 19, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	24 min
Aug 19, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	41 min
Aug 23, 3:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
Aug 23, 4:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	26 min
Aug 23, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ICT	37 min
Aug 29, 3:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	23 min
Aug 29, 4:17 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	43 min
Aug 31, 1:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	60 min
Sep 4, 1:20 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	25 min
Sep 4, 1:53 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	37 min
Sep 4, 2:38 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	37 min
Sep 4, 3:17 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	28 min
Sep 4, 3:27 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	30 hr
Sep 4, 9:29 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	40 hr
Sep 5, 9:52 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ICT	27 hr
Sep 7, 12:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	53 min
Sep 12, 5:54 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Sep 12, 6:51 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	24 min
Sep 16, 1:12 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	48 min
Sep 16, 3:03 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	27 min
Sep 16, 3:31 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	29 min
Sep 16, 4:04 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ICT	6 hr
Sep 18, 2:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	22 min
Oct 3, 3:10 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	4 hr
Oct 6, 1:38 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	8 hr
Oct 6, 1:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	113 min
Oct 6, 5:53 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ICT	3 hr
Oct 12, 2:55 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	ICT	30 hr
Oct 16, 2:25 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	7 hr
Oct 25, 10:53 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ICT	37 min
Nov 7, 2:59 PM CST	Freeze Watch	ICT	12 hr
Nov 8, 2:42 AM CST	Freeze Warning	ICT	30 hr
Nov 16, 2:21 AM CST	Red Flag Warning	ICT	17 hr
Nov 17, 2:30 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	25 hr
Nov 27, 4:02 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	14 hr
Nov 27, 1:44 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Dec 15, 9:30 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	14 hr
Dec 16, 4:32 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	43 hr
Dec 16, 8:46 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	15 hr
Dec 16, 11:15 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	4 hr
Dec 17, 11:23 PM CST	Wind Chill Advisory	ICT	12 hr
Dec 22, 10:45 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ICT	10 hr
Dec 24, 2:43 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ICT	18 hr
Dec 25, 2:15 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ICT	16 hr
Dec 25, 10:45 AM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Dec 25, 11:21 AM CST	Special Weather Statement	ICT	54 min

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	32
Tornado Warning	2
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	9
Tornado Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	27
Special Weather Statement	54
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	6
River Flood Warning	2
Flash Flood Watch	1
Flood Watch	1
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	1
Winter Weather Advisory	8
Heat
Excessive Heat Warning	1
Heat Advisory	4
Cold
Freeze Warning	2
Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	1
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	18
Fire
Red Flag Warning	13
Fire Weather Watch	9
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	5

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2015 2017

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.