Alert archive / Tennessee

Weather alerts in Van Buren County, Tennessee

2,534 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Van Buren County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,534
Warnings
545
Watches
501
Advisories
619
Busiest year
2011136 alerts
Average year
70over 36 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, of tornado reports in Van Buren County fell inside a tornado warning, and 88% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
20095180%0
20116183%0
201260100%0
201310100%0
201610100%0
20172150%0
202210100%0
20259189%0

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089367%2100%9 min
20099544%1100%22 min
201013562%0
201118856%1100%25 min
201212650%367%14 min
20137443%2100%40 min
201411736%1100%9 min
20157443%0
201613562%1100%27 min
20178363%1100%21 min
201812742%367%9 min
20193167%1100%23 min
20208625%2100%12 min
20215420%1100%14 min
202211373%10%
202314936%683%10 min
20249722%10%
20259278%10%

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20095260%3100%79 min
201020100%0
201120100%0
201220100%0
20132150%0
2019330%0
2020110%0
2021220%3100%39 min
20232150%0
20243233%0
20253167%0

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
Aug 17, 3:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX24 min
Aug 17, 2:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX49 min
Jul 17, 6:43 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningOHX3 hr
Jul 3, 1:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX44 min
Apr 16, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX37 min
Mar 16, 12:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOHX57 min
Jan 25, 11:15 AM CSTExtreme Cold WarningOHX47 hr
Jan 22, 11:36 AM CSTWinter Storm WarningOHX3 days

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.