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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Baylor County, Texas, 2008

28 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2008. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Baylor County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
28
Busiest month
April9 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 10, 20084 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.

7 of 28 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Baylor County in 2008 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 3 of 3 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 13 minutes after it went out.

Baylor County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings28775%3100%13 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Norman, OK: severe thunderstorm warnings87129366%71982%24 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
Feb 16, 6:20 AM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN40 min
Mar 2, 6:54 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN51 min
Mar 17, 6:02 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN28 min
Mar 17, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN41 min
Mar 17, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN48 min
Mar 17, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN63 min
Mar 17, 9:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN48 min
Apr 3, 2:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN47 min
Apr 7, 6:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN46 min
Apr 7, 7:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN43 min
Apr 9, 10:14 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN46 min
Apr 9, 6:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN44 min
Apr 9, 9:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN39 min
Apr 9, 10:48 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN27 min
Apr 10, 12:40 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN50 min
Apr 10, 12:59 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN32 min
May 5, 10:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN33 min
May 13, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN44 min
Jun 5, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN67 min
Jun 5, 9:10 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN80 min
Jun 5, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN29 min
Jun 13, 9:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN51 min
Jun 14, 9:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN51 min
Jun 16, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN69 min
Jun 19, 3:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN38 min
Jun 28, 2:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN51 min
Jun 28, 3:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN55 min
Aug 14, 9:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningOUN46 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20072009

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.