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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in King County, Texas, 2009

45 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2009. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

King County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
45
Busiest month
April17 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 26, 20098 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.

14 of 45 severe thunderstorm warnings covering King County in 2009 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 14 of 15 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 29 minutes after it went out.

King County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings451469%1593%29 min

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Lubbock, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings30510366%22480%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 26, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB48 min
Apr 26, 2:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB17 min
Apr 26, 4:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB51 min
Apr 26, 5:11 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB49 min
Apr 26, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB44 min
Apr 26, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB41 min
Apr 26, 5:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB66 min
Apr 26, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB29 min
Apr 28, 9:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB28 min
Apr 28, 9:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB31 min
Apr 28, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB45 min
Apr 28, 10:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB31 min
Apr 29, 6:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB34 min
Apr 29, 7:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB59 min
Apr 29, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB63 min
Apr 29, 9:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB41 min
Apr 29, 10:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB44 min
May 1, 4:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB32 min
May 12, 8:08 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB37 min
May 12, 8:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB42 min
May 12, 8:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB54 min
May 12, 9:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB26 min
Jun 6, 4:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB35 min
Jun 6, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB43 min
Jun 6, 5:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB41 min
Jun 6, 5:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB50 min
Jun 7, 8:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB59 min
Jun 8, 4:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB63 min
Jun 9, 1:12 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB48 min
Jun 9, 7:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB58 min
Jun 10, 12:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB41 min
Jun 13, 4:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB25 min
Jun 13, 4:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB63 min
Jun 13, 5:25 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB65 min
Jun 13, 6:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB32 min
Jun 15, 6:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB66 min
Jun 15, 7:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB63 min
Jul 4, 6:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB24 min
Jul 19, 1:18 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB42 min
Jul 19, 1:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB51 min
Jul 30, 12:15 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB60 min
Jul 30, 1:10 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB43 min
Oct 8, 3:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB45 min
Oct 8, 4:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB31 min
Oct 8, 6:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLUB54 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.