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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Bates County, Missouri, 2020

17 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Bates County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
17
Busiest month
May7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 4, 20206 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.

11 of 17 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Bates County in 2020 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 4 of 5 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 26 minutes after it went out.

Bates County, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings171135%580%26 min

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Kansas City, MO: severe thunderstorm warnings1828255%19291%21 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 28, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX36 min
May 4, 9:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX47 min
May 4, 9:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX34 min
May 4, 10:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX46 min
May 4, 11:37 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX53 min
May 4, 12:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX37 min
May 4, 12:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX46 min
May 15, 12:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX26 min
Jun 4, 2:21 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX39 min
Jun 4, 2:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX35 min
Jun 5, 3:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX52 min
Jun 5, 4:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX48 min
Jul 19, 4:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX25 min
Aug 15, 8:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX45 min
Aug 31, 9:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX40 min
Sep 27, 12:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX46 min
Nov 14, 7:11 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningEAX49 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.