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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wayne County, Michigan, 2014

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

Wayne County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
10
Busiest month
August4 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 27, 20142 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.

10 of 10 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Wayne County in 2014 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 39 of 40 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 26 minutes after it went out.

Wayne County, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings10100%4098%26 min

Each office's whole area, 2014

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Detroit, MI: severe thunderstorm warnings1048320%34087%27 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 13, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX58 min
Jul 1, 2:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX63 min
Jul 27, 5:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX73 min
Jul 27, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX41 min
Aug 2, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX34 min
Aug 4, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX26 min
Aug 19, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX59 min
Aug 26, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX64 min
Sep 5, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX67 min
Sep 20, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDTX56 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.