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Tornado Warnings in Titus County, Texas, 2009

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

Titus County and its neighbors

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

Tornado Warnings
4
Busiest month
May2 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 3, 20092 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

4 of 4 tornado warnings covering Titus County in 2009 had a tornado report inside them; 2 of 2 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 12 minutes after it went out.

Titus County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Tornado warnings440%2100%12 min

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Shreveport, LA: tornado warnings1315161%13460%18 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 9, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningSHV39 min
May 2, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningSHV25 min
May 2, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningSHV49 min
Jun 10, 9:12 PM CDTTornado WarningSHV48 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordForecastThe radar archive20082010

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.