Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wichita County, Texas

1,056 severe thunderstorm warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Wichita County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: 1,056
Busiest year: 202362 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year: 26over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 80% of hail, wind and damage reports in Wichita County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 24 minutes before, and 54% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
2008	31	15	52%	18	61%	25 min
2009	35	15	57%	7	71%	17 min
2010	10	8	20%	8	38%	31 min
2011	18	12	33%	16	56%	25 min
2012	22	13	41%	16	81%	26 min
2013	27	16	41%	15	73%	23 min
2014	22	15	32%	16	88%	22 min
2015	44	22	50%	16	81%	21 min
2016	44	18	59%	13	69%	26 min
2017	40	19	53%	24	79%	32 min
2018	29	16	45%	15	80%	20 min
2019	42	17	60%	15	73%	26 min
2020	52	24	54%	38	95%	25 min
2021	46	21	54%	37	92%	23 min
2022	26	10	62%	32	97%	24 min
2023	62	19	69%	32	78%	26 min
2024	58	23	60%	23	83%	24 min
2025	57	24	58%	32	75%	20 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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 latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 22, 9:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	22 min
Jul 5, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	50 min
Jul 5, 4:11 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	49 min
Jul 5, 3:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	52 min
Jul 5, 2:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	53 min
Jul 5, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	38 min
Jul 5, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	45 min
Jun 22, 3:10 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	50 min
Jun 19, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	OUN	50 min
Jun 7, 4:40 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	50 min
Jun 7, 4:26 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	19 min
Jun 6, 3:16 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OUN	29 min

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.