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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Smith County, Kansas, 2014

45 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2014. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Smith County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2014. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
45
Busiest month
June24 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 1, 20147 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.

26 of 45 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Smith County in 2014 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 16 of 19 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

Smith County, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings452642%1984%21 min

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hastings, NE: severe thunderstorm warnings37520246%56887%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 23, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID52 min
May 11, 3:04 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID26 min
May 11, 3:26 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID34 min
May 11, 4:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID41 min
May 11, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
May 11, 5:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID45 min
May 11, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID32 min
Jun 1, 12:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID32 min
Jun 1, 1:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID35 min
Jun 1, 1:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Jun 1, 3:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID31 min
Jun 1, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID45 min
Jun 1, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID39 min
Jun 1, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID52 min
Jun 6, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID52 min
Jun 6, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID40 min
Jun 6, 10:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Jun 11, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID50 min
Jun 11, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID30 min
Jun 11, 9:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID51 min
Jun 14, 6:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Jun 14, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID30 min
Jun 14, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID46 min
Jun 14, 7:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Jun 14, 7:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID48 min
Jun 14, 8:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Jun 14, 10:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID51 min
Jun 14, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Jun 14, 11:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID47 min
Jun 14, 11:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Jun 18, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID35 min
Jul 7, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID41 min
Jul 9, 8:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Aug 9, 7:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Aug 9, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID47 min
Aug 9, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID21 min
Aug 9, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID25 min
Aug 17, 8:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID39 min
Aug 17, 8:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID62 min
Aug 17, 9:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID45 min
Aug 21, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Aug 22, 7:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Aug 22, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Aug 22, 9:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID46 min
Sep 9, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID29 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.