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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Garden County, Nebraska

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

Garden County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
924
Busiest year
202654 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
23over 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, 84% of hail, wind and damage reports in Garden County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 50% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200834779%3100%29 min
2009482450%2157%28 min
2010372143%1292%16 min
2011241538%989%16 min
201211555%475%21 min
2013291548%1385%22 min
2014281643%2295%21 min
2015412539%2095%18 min
2016261446%1283%19 min
2017211052%580%17 min
2018352431%4286%23 min
2019241921%1694%30 min
2020261446%1283%13 min
2021221150%1392%22 min
2022241058%475%21 min
2023451860%1883%37 min
202437976%743%40 min
2025281161%1377%21 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 17, 8:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF53 min
Sep 17, 8:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF49 min
Sep 17, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF48 min
Sep 17, 6:07 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF53 min
Sep 17, 5:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF42 min
Sep 5, 6:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF25 min
Aug 25, 7:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF51 min
Aug 25, 7:03 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF42 min
Aug 17, 6:39 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF39 min
Aug 17, 5:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF52 min
Aug 17, 5:06 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF39 min
Aug 15, 5:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLBF48 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.