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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Sumner County, Kansas, 2024

37 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2024. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Sumner County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2024. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
37
Busiest month
May16 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 15, 20245 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.

22 of 37 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Sumner County in 2024 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 13 of 14 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 22 minutes after it went out.

Sumner County, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings372241%1493%22 min

Each office's whole area, 2024

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Wichita, KS: severe thunderstorm warnings33519542%59288%26 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 14, 12:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT58 min
Apr 26, 3:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT41 min
Apr 26, 4:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT17 min
Apr 27, 11:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT58 min
Apr 27, 12:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT62 min
Apr 27, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT57 min
Apr 27, 3:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
Apr 27, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT33 min
Apr 30, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT30 min
Apr 30, 6:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT55 min
Apr 30, 6:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT53 min
Apr 30, 7:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT42 min
Apr 30, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT45 min
Apr 30, 7:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT60 min
Apr 30, 8:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT36 min
May 4, 12:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT33 min
May 6, 7:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT56 min
May 15, 6:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT55 min
May 15, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT41 min
May 15, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT65 min
May 15, 6:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT55 min
May 15, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT37 min
May 25, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT30 min
May 25, 7:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT34 min
May 25, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT35 min
May 25, 9:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT28 min
May 25, 11:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT40 min
Jun 3, 12:44 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT31 min
Jun 4, 8:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT59 min
Jun 9, 2:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT58 min
Jun 9, 2:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT58 min
Jun 13, 8:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT32 min
Jun 25, 6:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT58 min
Jul 2, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT59 min
Aug 14, 10:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatICT53 min
Aug 15, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT36 min
Oct 30, 5:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningICT56 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.