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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, 2012

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

Cherokee County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
22
Busiest month
September5 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
August 16, 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.

13 of 22 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Cherokee County in 2012 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 6 of 7 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 19 minutes after it went out.

Cherokee County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings221341%786%19 min

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tulsa, OK: severe thunderstorm warnings29817143%40778%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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Feb 28, 11:57 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA48 min
Feb 29, 12:36 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA39 min
Mar 19, 7:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA42 min
Mar 19, 8:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA28 min
Mar 19, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA41 min
Apr 15, 9:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA62 min
May 1, 1:52 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA53 min
May 31, 1:47 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA43 min
Jun 4, 2:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA57 min
Jun 4, 2:34 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA56 min
Jul 8, 6:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA49 min
Jul 19, 9:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA45 min
Aug 16, 2:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA46 min
Aug 16, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA36 min
Aug 16, 5:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA52 min
Aug 16, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA35 min
Sep 6, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA24 min
Sep 7, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA17 min
Sep 7, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA51 min
Sep 7, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA39 min
Sep 7, 5:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA59 min
Oct 13, 8:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA53 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.