Alert archive / New Hampshire / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Hampshire, 2020

77 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2020. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
77
Busiest month
July29 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 8, 202014 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.

58 of 77 severe thunderstorm warnings covering New Hampshire in 2020 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 136 of 161 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 19 minutes after it went out.

New Hampshire, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings775825%16184%19 min

Each office's whole area, 2020

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Gray, ME: severe thunderstorm warnings15811229%27787%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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 15, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Sullivan58 min
May 15, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton, Merrimack, Sullivan44 min
May 15, 7:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Sullivan53 min
May 15, 7:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton, Merrimack47 min
May 15, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford44 min
May 27, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton52 min
May 29, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos39 min
May 29, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton49 min
May 29, 8:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos37 min
Jun 6, 9:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll45 min
Jun 6, 11:52 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Strafford38 min
Jun 6, 12:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Grafton36 min
Jun 6, 2:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Merrimack, Sullivan39 min
Jun 6, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll37 min
Jun 20, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton36 min
Jun 20, 1:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton24 min
Jun 20, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXSullivan20 min
Jun 21, 2:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos17 min
Jun 22, 3:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Sullivan32 min
Jun 28, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll51 min
Jun 28, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Strafford51 min
Jul 5, 7:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Sullivan42 min
Jul 5, 7:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough65 min
Jul 5, 8:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack48 min
Jul 5, 9:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham, Strafford41 min
Jul 8, 2:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Sullivan56 min
Jul 8, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos49 min
Jul 8, 3:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire53 min
Jul 8, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos50 min
Jul 8, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire50 min
Jul 8, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Merrimack, Strafford48 min
Jul 8, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll41 min
Jul 8, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough50 min
Jul 8, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough51 min
Jul 8, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton41 min
Jul 8, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll34 min
Jul 8, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton47 min
Jul 8, 6:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton40 min
Jul 8, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Grafton, Merrimack, Strafford46 min
Jul 13, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack30 min
Jul 13, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham, Strafford52 min
Jul 13, 4:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos38 min
Jul 13, 8:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll44 min
Jul 14, 4:19 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton, Sullivan41 min
Jul 14, 4:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton51 min
Jul 14, 11:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire41 min
Jul 14, 3:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham39 min
Jul 23, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack50 min
Jul 23, 5:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham43 min
Jul 23, 9:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire37 min
Aug 19, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham48 min
Aug 22, 12:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll52 min
Aug 23, 1:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham48 min
Aug 23, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXMerrimack, Rockingham, Strafford64 min
Aug 23, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire54 min
Aug 23, 2:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham13 min
Aug 23, 3:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham, Strafford42 min
Aug 23, 3:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough23 min
Aug 23, 3:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXRockingham, Strafford32 min
Aug 23, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire26 min
Aug 23, 8:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXGrafton, Sullivan50 min
Aug 24, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire33 min
Aug 24, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Merrimack, Rockingham52 min
Aug 24, 3:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham25 min
Aug 24, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham57 min
Aug 24, 6:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXMerrimack, Rockingham13 min
Aug 25, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Strafford50 min
Oct 7, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire51 min
Oct 7, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCheshire, Hillsborough46 min
Oct 7, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXBelknap, Carroll, Strafford49 min
Oct 7, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXHillsborough, Rockingham45 min
Oct 10, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos39 min
Oct 10, 6:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos42 min
Oct 10, 7:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton39 min
Oct 10, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCoos48 min
Oct 10, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Coos, Grafton48 min
Oct 10, 8:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGYXCarroll, Grafton39 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

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.