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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Lipscomb County, Texas, 2023

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

Lipscomb County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
44
Busiest month
July15 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 7, 20235 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.

21 of 44 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Lipscomb County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 6 of 6 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 42 minutes after it went out.

Lipscomb County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings442152%6100%42 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Amarillo, TX: severe thunderstorm warnings40818156%46084%35 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 26, 4:48 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA57 min
Feb 26, 4:50 PM CSTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA55 min
May 22, 7:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA60 min
May 22, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA64 min
May 24, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA66 min
May 30, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA59 min
Jun 2, 4:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA86 min
Jun 2, 4:53 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA67 min
Jun 10, 12:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA53 min
Jun 12, 12:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA55 min
Jun 15, 4:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA91 min
Jun 15, 5:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA94 min
Jun 15, 5:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA43 min
Jun 17, 6:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA65 min
Jun 17, 7:18 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA87 min
Jun 17, 8:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA80 min
Jun 22, 1:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA40 min
Jun 22, 3:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA58 min
Jul 5, 2:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA61 min
Jul 5, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA60 min
Jul 5, 4:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA88 min
Jul 6, 3:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA66 min
Jul 7, 3:20 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatAMA55 min
Jul 7, 4:06 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA54 min
Jul 7, 4:09 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA66 min
Jul 7, 6:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA57 min
Jul 7, 6:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA54 min
Jul 7, 7:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA38 min
Jul 7, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatAMA33 min
Jul 8, 11:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA81 min
Jul 9, 12:50 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA55 min
Jul 20, 12:35 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA20 min
Jul 21, 1:07 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA40 min
Aug 7, 2:56 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA64 min
Aug 7, 4:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA44 min
Aug 13, 4:55 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA95 min
Aug 13, 6:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA87 min
Sep 7, 5:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA61 min
Sep 10, 8:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA56 min
Sep 10, 8:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA54 min
Sep 10, 9:35 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA55 min
Sep 18, 5:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA67 min
Sep 21, 8:41 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatAMA49 min
Oct 3, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningAMA66 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.