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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Warren County, Missouri

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

Warren County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
584
Busiest year
201160 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
14over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 72% of hail, wind and damage reports in Warren County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 28 minutes before, and 44% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008391074%367%27 min
200911282%1100%14 min
201020765%3100%17 min
2011634037%4459%34 min
2012312035%1593%19 min
201319953%2100%19 min
2014211243%683%25 min
2015151127%1788%39 min
2016141214%5100%29 min
2017171324%825%27 min
2018191047%2100%11 min
2019171041%250%1 min
202015847%888%38 min
2021211433%875%23 min
202215847%3100%12 min
2023271833%1593%20 min
2024271641%2348%31 min
202513654%580%26 min

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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 9, 10:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX30 min
Aug 16, 9:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX39 min
Aug 16, 8:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLSX42 min
Jul 10, 7:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX47 min
Jul 10, 7:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLSX75 min
Jul 4, 2:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX67 min
Jun 1, 4:53 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX52 min
Jun 1, 4:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX38 min
May 3, 9:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX30 min
Apr 27, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX36 min
Apr 27, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX50 min
Apr 27, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLSX51 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.