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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Roane County, Tennessee, 2023

45 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Roane County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
45
Busiest month
June14 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
August 12, 20237 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.

43 of 45 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Roane County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 6 of 9 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 20 minutes after it went out.

Roane County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings45434%967%20 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Morristown, TN: severe thunderstorm warnings28224613%38589%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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 3, 2:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX34 min
Mar 3, 2:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX52 min
Mar 3, 2:58 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX47 min
Mar 25, 2:35 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX55 min
Mar 25, 2:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX45 min
Mar 25, 3:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX42 min
Apr 1, 4:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX25 min
Apr 1, 4:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX36 min
Apr 1, 4:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX33 min
May 9, 5:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX34 min
May 16, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX40 min
May 16, 6:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX45 min
Jun 4, 6:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX44 min
Jun 5, 2:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX46 min
Jun 5, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX52 min
Jun 5, 3:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX47 min
Jun 11, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX56 min
Jun 11, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX64 min
Jun 11, 8:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX47 min
Jun 11, 9:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX51 min
Jun 11, 9:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX43 min
Jun 25, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX39 min
Jun 25, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX43 min
Jun 25, 1:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX51 min
Jun 25, 2:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX40 min
Jun 26, 1:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX45 min
Jul 20, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX25 min
Jul 25, 3:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX33 min
Jul 29, 2:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX52 min
Jul 29, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX55 min
Jul 29, 7:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX54 min
Aug 7, 1:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX52 min
Aug 7, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX40 min
Aug 7, 1:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX55 min
Aug 7, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX41 min
Aug 7, 2:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX58 min
Aug 12, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX49 min
Aug 12, 2:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX46 min
Aug 12, 2:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX42 min
Aug 12, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX47 min
Aug 12, 3:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX41 min
Aug 12, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX39 min
Aug 12, 3:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX49 min
Aug 14, 10:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMRX44 min
Dec 9, 11:22 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatMRX38 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.