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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Codington County, South Dakota, 2015

17 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Codington County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
17
Busiest month
July6 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 18, 20155 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 17 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Codington County in 2015 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 5 of 6 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 25 minutes after it went out.

Codington County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings17166%683%25 min

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Aberdeen, SD: severe thunderstorm warnings20515027%30885%22 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
May 10, 3:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR26 min
May 10, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR46 min
May 10, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR46 min
Jun 9, 3:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR51 min
Jun 9, 4:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR66 min
Jun 22, 2:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR47 min
Jun 22, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR53 min
Jun 22, 4:33 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR42 min
Jul 17, 7:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR62 min
Jul 17, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR61 min
Jul 17, 7:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR50 min
Jul 17, 8:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR38 min
Jul 17, 9:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR48 min
Jul 25, 7:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR39 min
Aug 6, 2:49 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR56 min
Aug 6, 3:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR43 min
Aug 9, 7:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR21 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.