Alert archive / Missouri / Ripley County
Weather alerts in Ripley County, Missouri, 2016
85 weather alerts in 2016, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.
Ripley County and its neighbors
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 85
- Warnings
- 25
- Watches
- 11
- Advisories
- 26
- Busiest month
- July28 alerts
- Busiest day
- July 8, 20169 alerts
Over time
By month
Warning verification
How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.
Ripley County, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado warnings | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Severe thunderstorm warnings | 8 | 4 | 50% | 2 | 100% | 32 min |
| Flash flood warnings | 7 | 2 | 71% | 2 | 100% | 116 min |
Each office's whole area, 2016
| Warnings | With a report | False alarm ratio | Reports | Inside a warning | Mean lead time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NWS Paducah, KY: tornado warnings | 67 | 17 | 75% | 43 | 77% | 14 min |
| NWS Paducah, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings | 223 | 110 | 51% | 419 | 66% | 20 min |
| NWS Paducah, KY: flash flood warnings | 94 | 51 | 46% | 186 | 93% | 83 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 19, 3:33 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 9 hr |
| Jan 19, 12:04 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | PAH | 20 hr |
| Jan 19, 9:36 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jan 21, 4:42 AM CST | Winter Storm Warning | PAH | 38 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:46 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 17 hr |
| Feb 1, 3:54 PM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | 30 hr |
| Feb 2, 9:54 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 96 min |
| Feb 13, 2:43 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 36 hr |
| Feb 14, 3:40 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 7:14 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 4 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:09 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 8 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:09 PM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | 24 hr |
| Feb 23, 3:50 PM CST | Wind Advisory | PAH | 23 hr |
| Feb 23, 4:03 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 24 hr |
| Mar 8, 3:11 PM CST | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 50 hr |
| Mar 19, 3:23 PM CDT | Freeze Watch | PAH | 23 hr |
| Mar 20, 2:03 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | 17 hr |
| Mar 22, 3:36 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | PAH | 15 hr |
| Mar 27, 9:52 PM CDT | Frost Advisory | PAH | 11 hr |
| Apr 2, 11:54 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 4:00 AM CDT | Freeze Watch | PAH | 23 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:11 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | PAH | 29 hr |
| Apr 26, 11:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 116 min |
| May 9, 6:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 97 min |
| May 9, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
| May 9, 8:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 41 min |
| May 9, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 45 min |
| May 24, 10:59 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| May 24, 2:32 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 4 hr |
| May 24, 6:48 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 117 min |
| May 26, 11:29 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 6 hr |
| May 27, 1:49 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:57 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 2:36 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | 28 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:17 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | 16 hr |
| Jun 23, 5:37 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | 38 min |
| Jul 5, 3:09 AM CDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 10:32 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 58 min |
| Jul 6, 10:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:21 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 39 min |
| Jul 6, 11:45 AM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 3 hr |
| Jul 6, 11:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 33 min |
| Jul 6, 12:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 67 min |
| Jul 7, 8:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 95 min |
| Jul 8, 1:45 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 90 min |
| Jul 8, 1:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 8, 2:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 31 min |
| Jul 8, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 55 min |
| Jul 8, 4:14 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 4:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 20 min |
| Jul 8, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 3 hr |
| Jul 9, 6:42 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 4 hr |
| Jul 13, 5:08 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 15, 12:36 PM CDT | Areal Flood Advisory | PAH | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 12:54 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 1:34 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | PAH | 26 min |
| Jul 15, 2:15 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Jul 18, 3:04 AM CDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | 7 days |
| Jul 20, 4:27 AM CDT | Excessive Heat Warning | PAH | 5 days |
| Jul 20, 11:41 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Jul 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 20 hr |
| Jul 28, 8:52 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:31 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 119 min |
| Aug 4, 1:05 PM CDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | 30 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:05 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 115 min |
| Aug 5, 2:28 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 3 hr |
| Aug 12, 3:40 AM CDT | Flash Flood Watch | PAH | 4 days |
| Aug 13, 2:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Aug 14, 8:59 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | 15 hr |
| Aug 15, 1:02 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 9:41 AM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | PAH | 6 hr |
| Aug 26, 9:57 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | 33 min |
| Sep 8, 1:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 2 hr |
| Sep 15, 5:34 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | 3 hr |
| Oct 19, 12:05 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 85 min |
| Oct 19, 3:36 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | 114 min |
| Nov 9, 3:23 AM CST | Frost Advisory | PAH | 29 hr |
| Nov 12, 2:11 AM CST | Freeze Warning | PAH | 30 hr |
| Nov 27, 3:59 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 5 hr |
| Dec 17, 3:10 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | PAH | 27 hr |
| Dec 24, 6:17 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 4 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:52 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | 18 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 | 8 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 19 |
| Special Weather Statement | 4 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 3 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 7 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 5 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 5 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 5 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 1 |
| Heat Advisory | 4 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 4 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 6 |
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.