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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Buffalo County, Nebraska, 2017

30 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2017. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Buffalo County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2017. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
30
Busiest month
August11 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 28, 20174 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.

19 of 30 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Buffalo County in 2017 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 19 of 23 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

Buffalo County, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings301937%2383%21 min

Each office's whole area, 2017

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Hastings, NE: severe thunderstorm warnings29315946%40885%20 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
Mar 23, 9:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID50 min
Mar 23, 9:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID39 min
Mar 23, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID43 min
Apr 9, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID65 min
Apr 9, 6:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID56 min
Apr 14, 8:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID45 min
May 16, 7:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID42 min
Jun 27, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID51 min
Jun 27, 10:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID39 min
Jun 27, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID48 min
Jun 27, 11:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Jul 8, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID46 min
Aug 3, 12:16 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID44 min
Aug 9, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID48 min
Aug 12, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Aug 13, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID38 min
Aug 13, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID49 min
Aug 13, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID46 min
Aug 16, 1:46 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID29 min
Aug 19, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID23 min
Aug 19, 10:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID48 min
Aug 27, 3:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID47 min
Aug 27, 4:30 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID27 min
Sep 15, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID46 min
Sep 15, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID46 min
Sep 15, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID32 min
Sep 15, 8:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID47 min
Oct 1, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID51 min
Oct 1, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID44 min
Oct 2, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGID27 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.