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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ottawa County, Ohio, 2011

21 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2011. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Ottawa County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
21
Busiest month
July7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 18, 20113 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.

16 of 21 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Ottawa County in 2011 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 13 of 17 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 31 minutes after it went out.

Ottawa County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings211624%1776%31 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Cleveland, OH: severe thunderstorm warnings30018937%44885%24 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
Apr 23, 2:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE54 min
May 23, 5:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE42 min
May 25, 4:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE57 min
May 29, 5:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE65 min
Jun 9, 3:22 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE53 min
Jun 9, 4:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE29 min
Jun 21, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE32 min
Jun 21, 8:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE42 min
Jun 22, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE40 min
Jul 11, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE59 min
Jul 18, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE55 min
Jul 18, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE67 min
Jul 18, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE65 min
Jul 22, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE40 min
Jul 22, 2:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE57 min
Jul 23, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE78 min
Aug 1, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE56 min
Aug 18, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE63 min
Aug 18, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE62 min
Aug 24, 11:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE41 min
Nov 14, 3:51 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLE39 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20102012

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.