Alert archive / Missouri

Weather alerts in Scotland County, Missouri

2,616 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Scotland County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,616
Warnings
505
Watches
565
Advisories
602
Busiest year
2010202 alerts
Average year
65over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 29% of tornado reports in Scotland County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 8 minutes before, and 81% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20082150%0
200920100%0
201510100%10%
2016110%250%6 min
201710100%10%
201810100%10%
202220100%0
20232150%1100%10 min
202440100%10%
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008440%875%27 min
20095420%450%20 min
2010181044%1090%21 min
201111827%367%23 min
20123233%0
20136433%875%8 min
20146517%7100%19 min
201512925%1258%26 min
20164325%667%27 min
20178625%1090%40 min
20186517%683%15 min
201911555%475%25 min
20205180%250%15 min
20215340%1100%7 min
20229544%367%32 min
20236433%475%31 min
2024371754%1878%14 min
20256433%333%26 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086350%7100%198 min
2009440%250%177 min
201013128%1292%181 min
20117529%450%56 min
2012220%0
201410100%0
20154325%475%120 min
20162150%0
201710100%0
2019440%1100%5 min
20214250%250%210 min
202210100%0
2023110%333%36 min
202430100%0
20253233%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 15, 10:28 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN6 hr
Sep 2, 2:02 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDVN4 days
Aug 12, 8:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN63 min
Jul 25, 2:49 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDVN67 hr
Jun 27, 1:24 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningDVN6 days
Jun 11, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN52 min
Jun 11, 11:27 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN6 hr
Jun 10, 8:19 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningDVN5 hr
Jun 10, 5:41 PM CDTTornado WarningDVN52 min
Apr 17, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatDVN50 min
Mar 27, 11:59 AM CDTRed Flag WarningDVN33 hr
Mar 26, 8:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningDVN49 min

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.