Alert archive / North Carolina / Randolph County / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Randolph County, North Carolina, 2012

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

Randolph County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
33
Busiest month
July13 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
March 24, 20124 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.

27 of 33 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Randolph County in 2012 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 30 of 43 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 31 minutes after it went out.

Randolph County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings332718%4370%31 min

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Raleigh, NC: severe thunderstorm warnings36727226%70688%25 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 22, 11:42 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH48 min
Feb 24, 3:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH56 min
Feb 24, 4:34 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH56 min
Mar 3, 3:33 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH57 min
Mar 24, 5:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH83 min
Mar 24, 6:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH97 min
Mar 24, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH61 min
Mar 24, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH64 min
Mar 25, 8:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH51 min
May 14, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH76 min
May 22, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH54 min
May 22, 8:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH45 min
Jun 1, 2:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH45 min
Jun 22, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH57 min
Jul 1, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH64 min
Jul 2, 1:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH72 min
Jul 18, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH53 min
Jul 20, 5:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH41 min
Jul 21, 8:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH24 min
Jul 24, 2:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH66 min
Jul 27, 2:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH29 min
Jul 27, 6:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH66 min
Jul 27, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH56 min
Jul 27, 7:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH40 min
Jul 28, 7:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH61 min
Jul 28, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH61 min
Jul 28, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH55 min
Aug 8, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH62 min
Sep 3, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH48 min
Sep 8, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH64 min
Sep 8, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH38 min
Sep 28, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH48 min
Oct 18, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRAH63 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.