Alert archive / South Carolina

Weather alerts in Calhoun County, South Carolina

3,949 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Calhoun County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
3,949
Warnings
1,176
Watches
411
Advisories
1,219
Busiest year
2011237 alerts
Average year
99over 40 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 63% of tornado reports in Calhoun County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 13 minutes before, and 51% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200830100%0
200910100%0
201010100%0
2011110%1100%10 min
20124250%0
2015010%
20174175%1100%7 min
20182150%10%
20192150%0
20208625%250%22 min
2021110%0
202240100%0
20233233%1100%8 min
20247529%1100%16 min
20252150%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008391854%650%18 min
2009372241%888%24 min
2010371754%5100%17 min
2011614231%1694%23 min
2012312810%1275%21 min
2013161319%3100%32 min
2014151127%0
201529277%1894%25 min
2016262215%683%23 min
2017261735%7100%30 min
2018292224%1479%17 min
2019383021%683%9 min
2020271833%757%28 min
202111827%8100%6 min
2022282511%1479%10 min
2023282029%367%21 min
2024262119%1090%7 min
2025282221%5100%29 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
2011110%0
2013110%0
2015770%2100%60 min
20166517%3100%124 min
2018110%0
20206517%0
202120100%0
2022110%0
2023220%0
20249811%3100%185 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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 6, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatCAE51 min
Sep 6, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE55 min
Sep 6, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE65 min
Aug 27, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE27 min
Aug 21, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE63 min
Aug 21, 6:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE54 min
Aug 21, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE41 min
Aug 20, 1:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE47 min
Aug 14, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE42 min
Aug 10, 1:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE51 min
Aug 6, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE50 min
Aug 6, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCAE41 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.