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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Campbell County, Virginia, 2018

21 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2018. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Campbell County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2018. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
21
Busiest month
August9 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 10, 20182 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.

16 of 21 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Campbell County in 2018 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 10 of 15 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 18 minutes after it went out.

Campbell County, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings211624%1567%18 min

Each office's whole area, 2018

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Blacksburg, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings21114730%44070%23 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, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jan 12, 3:29 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK31 min
Apr 15, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK88 min
May 10, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK57 min
May 10, 3:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
May 22, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK53 min
May 22, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK51 min
May 22, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK79 min
Jun 9, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Jun 10, 8:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK67 min
Jun 20, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK45 min
Jun 22, 3:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK26 min
Aug 1, 7:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK41 min
Aug 1, 7:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK45 min
Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK94 min
Aug 2, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK59 min
Aug 3, 4:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Aug 7, 6:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK34 min
Aug 12, 1:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK79 min
Aug 12, 2:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Aug 13, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
Oct 11, 4:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK58 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.