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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Itasca County, Minnesota, 2013

15 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2013. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Itasca County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
15
Busiest month
August7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
August 31, 20133 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.

4 of 15 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Itasca County in 2013 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 4 of 6 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 19 minutes after it went out.

Itasca County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings15473%667%19 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Duluth, MN: severe thunderstorm warnings1283275%6668%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
Jun 15, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH29 min
Jun 16, 6:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH44 min
Jun 26, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH50 min
Jun 26, 9:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH32 min
Jul 12, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH41 min
Jul 12, 9:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH47 min
Jul 18, 11:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH29 min
Jul 18, 11:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH38 min
Aug 21, 3:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH34 min
Aug 25, 8:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH40 min
Aug 29, 5:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH41 min
Aug 29, 5:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH47 min
Aug 31, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH43 min
Aug 31, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH26 min
Aug 31, 4:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDLH30 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.