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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Castro County, Texas, 2008

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

Castro County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
29
Busiest month
May10 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 6, 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.

12 of 29 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Castro County in 2008 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 9 of 12 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 29 minutes after it went out.

Castro County, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings291259%1275%29 min

Each office's whole area, 2008

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Lubbock, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings25410459%23777%26 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
Apr 23, 4:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB29 min
Apr 23, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB26 min
May 5, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB56 min
May 5, 9:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB55 min
May 6, 6:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB44 min
May 6, 6:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB54 min
May 6, 7:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB10 min
May 6, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB29 min
May 7, 4:39 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB44 min
May 25, 6:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB67 min
May 25, 7:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB64 min
May 25, 7:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB16 min
Jun 17, 6:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB60 min
Jun 17, 10:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB31 min
Jun 19, 6:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB62 min
Jun 19, 7:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB45 min
Jun 19, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB62 min
Jun 19, 9:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB19 min
Jun 19, 10:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB46 min
Jun 22, 8:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB33 min
Aug 13, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB58 min
Aug 13, 5:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB59 min
Aug 13, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB65 min
Aug 14, 7:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB59 min
Aug 14, 8:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB62 min
Aug 16, 12:19 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB56 min
Aug 16, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB63 min
Sep 5, 3:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB64 min
Sep 5, 5:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB52 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.