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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Roscommon County, Michigan

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

Roscommon County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
206
Busiest year
200820 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
5over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 53% of hail, wind and damage reports in Roscommon County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 25 minutes before, and 56% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820480%757%16 min
2009010%
201020100%50%
20112150%0
20128275%425%43 min
20137357%450%33 min
2014220%2100%27 min
20158363%667%20 min
20167443%850%29 min
20175340%771%34 min
2018440%475%22 min
20192150%1100%19 min
20204250%10%
202112650%450%14 min
20226433%1100%12 min
20233167%0
20244250%0
20252150%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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 latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 1, 10:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX49 min
Jul 1, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX39 min
Jun 16, 2:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX44 min
Jun 16, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX26 min
Jun 16, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX51 min
Mar 31, 3:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX29 min
Mar 31, 2:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX30 min
Mar 31, 12:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAPX39 min

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.