Alert archive / Missouri / Carter County
Weather alerts in Carter County, Missouri, 2013
91 weather alerts in 2013, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Carter County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 91
- Warnings
- 15
- Watches
- 17
- Advisories
- 30
- Busiest month
- April17 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 18, 20135 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
0 of 1 tornado warnings covering Carter County in 2013 had a tornado report inside them.
Carter County, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 1 | 0 | 100% | 0 | ||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 6 | 2 | 67% | 3 | 33% | 10 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 4 | 1 | 75% | 0 |
Each office's whole area, 2013
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Paducah, KY: tornado warnings | 92 | 26 | 72% | 91 | 62% | 15 min |
| NWS Paducah, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings | 138 | 65 | 53% | 261 | 50% | 18 min |
| NWS Paducah, KY: flash flood warnings | 46 | 25 | 46% | 134 | 72% | 140 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10, 5:40 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jan 12, 4:51 AM CST | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 34 hr |
| Jan 12, 2:30 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 189 days |
| Jan 12, 5:02 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 3 hr |
| Jan 12, 7:19 PM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 6 hr |
| Jan 13, 1:34 AM CST | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 10 hr |
| Jan 13, 10:52 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 4 hr |
| Jan 29, 2:50 AM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | 23 hr |
| Jan 29, 11:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Jan 29, 7:13 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jan 31, 2:48 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 6 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:00 AM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | 19 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:00 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 8 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:53 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | PAH | 34 hr |
| Feb 21, 9:27 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 4:04 PM CDT | Winter Storm Watch | PAH | 36 hr |
| Mar 21, 3:37 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 24 hr |
| Mar 24, 4:55 AM CDT | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 38 hr |
| Mar 29, 11:57 PM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 9 hr |
| Apr 10, 1:03 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 117 min |
| Apr 10, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 119 min |
| Apr 10, 6:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Apr 10, 7:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Apr 10, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 34 min |
| Apr 10, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | 17 hr |
| Apr 17, 12:59 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | PAH | 30 hr |
| Apr 18, 7:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Apr 18, 9:25 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Apr 18, 10:39 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 51 min |
| Apr 18, 11:21 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | 24 min |
| Apr 18, 2:04 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:59 AM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | 27 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:06 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | 17 hr |
| Apr 29, 3:16 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 5 hr |
| May 2, 11:32 AM CDT | Flood Watch | PAH | 36 hr |
| May 14, 3:43 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 14 hr |
| May 15, 3:51 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 14 hr |
| May 18, 2:46 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 6 hr |
| May 20, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| May 20, 10:56 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 28, 3:05 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 17 hr |
| May 30, 1:35 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 18 hr |
| May 30, 11:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| May 31, 1:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| May 31, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 1, 1:51 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Jun 5, 8:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 46 min |
| Jun 9, 1:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 62 min |
| Jun 9, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 1:53 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 19 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:45 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 15 hr |
| Jun 26, 3:40 AM CDT | Lake Wind Advisory | PAH | 14 hr |
| Jun 28, 1:04 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 56 min |
| Jun 28, 2:13 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jun 28, 3:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 40 min |
| Jun 28, 3:58 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 2 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 27 min |
| Jul 20, 4:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 37 min |
| Jul 23, 7:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 92 min |
| Aug 2, 9:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| Aug 3, 1:15 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Aug 5, 5:13 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:30 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Aug 6, 2:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 20 hr |
| Aug 7, 6:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Aug 8, 5:24 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 66 min |
| Aug 12, 10:57 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Aug 30, 11:41 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | 52 hr |
| Oct 22, 10:27 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | PAH | 25 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:00 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | 46 hr |
| Oct 31, 12:31 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 89 min |
| Oct 31, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| Nov 16, 1:34 PM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | 27 hr |
| Nov 16, 11:29 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 61 min |
| Nov 17, 10:17 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 118 min |
| Nov 17, 10:43 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
| Nov 17, 11:57 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 93 min |
| Dec 2, 11:09 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 9 hr |
| Dec 3, 3:42 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | PAH | 24 hr |
| Dec 4, 3:52 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | PAH | 50 hr |
| Dec 5, 7:07 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Dec 5, 12:00 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 5, 6:25 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Dec 6, 11:31 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 4 hr |
| Dec 8, 8:15 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 7 hr |
| Dec 12, 3:15 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 39 hr |
| Dec 19, 2:36 PM CST | Flood Watch | PAH | 54 hr |
| Dec 21, 7:04 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Dec 21, 12:41 PM CST | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | 23 hr |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 6 |
| Tornado Warning | 1 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 8 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 29 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 1 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 2 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 7 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 1 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 1 |
| Freeze Watch | 1 |
| Frost Advisory | 3 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Lake Wind Advisory | 7 |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 4 |
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.