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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Tooele County, Utah

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

Tooele County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
547
Busiest year
202637 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
14over 40 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, 28% of hail, wind and damage reports in Tooele County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 24 minutes before, and 56% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200821481%157%33 min
200922673%3829%22 min
201014193%100%
2011181139%4529%15 min
201211555%2035%28 min
201312467%3619%19 min
201413654%4028%26 min
201520670%4753%36 min
2016221341%8019%24 min
201711736%3429%48 min
20188188%1414%29 min
2019221055%1937%22 min
202012833%1953%14 min
202123961%5223%19 min
2022281643%7231%25 min
2023301453%8629%24 min
2024291548%9020%13 min
2025171135%5732%23 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 22, 3:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatSLC23 min
Sep 22, 2:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC28 min
Aug 31, 5:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC37 min
Aug 29, 10:36 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC39 min
Aug 29, 10:10 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC35 min
Aug 29, 9:51 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC24 min
Aug 28, 3:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC31 min
Aug 28, 3:51 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC39 min
Aug 27, 7:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC32 min
Aug 27, 4:16 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC44 min
Aug 27, 3:43 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC32 min
Aug 27, 3:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSLC32 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.