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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Choctaw County, Oklahoma

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

Choctaw County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
538
Busiest year
202029 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
13over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 79% of hail, wind and damage reports in Choctaw County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 23 minutes before, and 68% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200821767%978%49 min
200925772%5100%38 min
201010460%875%13 min
201124867%838%20 min
201214750%683%8 min
201314843%10100%20 min
201411645%757%18 min
201510370%650%16 min
201613377%3100%15 min
20176267%450%51 min
20185340%1100%10 min
201920860%8100%17 min
202029969%1593%23 min
202111464%1275%21 min
202214471%771%25 min
202321671%1090%22 min
2024180100%0
202520290%367%22 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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 latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jun 23, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA48 min
Apr 28, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTSA51 min
Apr 28, 4:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTSA38 min
Apr 28, 3:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTSA39 min
Apr 26, 12:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA20 min
Apr 25, 11:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA44 min
Apr 25, 10:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA35 min
Apr 25, 9:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA64 min
Apr 24, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTSA44 min
Apr 24, 6:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTSA63 min
Apr 18, 4:42 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA48 min
Mar 10, 11:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA43 min

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.