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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Ottawa County, Oklahoma, 2009

38 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2009. 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 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
38
Busiest month
May16 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 1, 20098 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.

19 of 38 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Ottawa County in 2009 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 16 of 18 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 28 minutes after it went out.

Ottawa County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings381950%1889%28 min

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Tulsa, OK: severe thunderstorm warnings52623156%45786%31 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
Mar 24, 6:11 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA35 min
Mar 24, 9:17 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA43 min
Apr 9, 5:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA59 min
Apr 9, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA43 min
Apr 9, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA19 min
Apr 18, 3:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA66 min
Apr 18, 4:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA54 min
May 1, 2:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA55 min
May 1, 2:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA61 min
May 1, 8:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA34 min
May 1, 3:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA36 min
May 1, 3:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA67 min
May 1, 4:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA47 min
May 1, 5:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA65 min
May 1, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA16 min
May 8, 6:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA53 min
May 8, 6:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA61 min
May 12, 3:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA48 min
May 13, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA81 min
May 13, 10:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA53 min
May 15, 9:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA72 min
May 15, 10:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA70 min
May 15, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA72 min
Jun 9, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA66 min
Jun 9, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA40 min
Jun 9, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA60 min
Jul 13, 2:48 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA24 min
Aug 17, 11:55 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA35 min
Aug 19, 10:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA62 min
Aug 19, 10:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA40 min
Aug 20, 1:29 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA31 min
Aug 20, 1:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA46 min
Aug 20, 2:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA34 min
Sep 21, 2:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA57 min
Sep 21, 3:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA58 min
Sep 21, 3:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA67 min
Sep 21, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA43 min
Oct 1, 2:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA23 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.