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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Platte County, Nebraska, 2012

26 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2012. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Platte County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
26
Busiest month
May19 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 3, 20126 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.

11 of 26 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Platte County in 2012 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 7 of 8 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

Platte County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings261158%888%21 min

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Omaha, NE: severe thunderstorm warnings22512445%23081%16 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 30, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX36 min
Mar 30, 4:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX46 min
May 2, 9:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX34 min
May 2, 10:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX28 min
May 2, 10:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX34 min
May 2, 10:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX45 min
May 2, 11:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX49 min
May 2, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX48 min
May 4, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX52 min
May 4, 6:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX34 min
May 4, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX36 min
May 4, 9:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX38 min
May 19, 5:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX32 min
May 19, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX25 min
May 23, 10:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX48 min
May 24, 5:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX35 min
May 27, 6:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX26 min
May 27, 6:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX33 min
May 27, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX23 min
May 27, 8:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX29 min
May 27, 9:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX12 min
Aug 4, 2:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX29 min
Aug 7, 6:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX35 min
Aug 7, 6:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX31 min
Aug 7, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX47 min
Nov 10, 6:29 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOAX31 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20112013

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.