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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Clarke County, Virginia, 2021

25 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2021. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Clarke County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
25
Busiest month
August7 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 26, 20214 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.

19 of 25 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Clarke County in 2021 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 7 of 8 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 11 minutes after it went out.

Clarke County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings251924%888%11 min

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings54439627%1,44683%20 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
Mar 28, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX45 min
May 26, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX39 min
May 26, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX39 min
May 26, 3:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX28 min
May 26, 6:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX45 min
Jun 3, 3:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX50 min
Jun 3, 3:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Jun 3, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX52 min
Jun 21, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX45 min
Jun 21, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX39 min
Jun 21, 4:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX49 min
Jul 12, 3:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX47 min
Jul 12, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX29 min
Jul 17, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX39 min
Jul 17, 2:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX28 min
Jul 17, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX42 min
Jul 28, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX14 min
Aug 10, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX44 min
Aug 11, 2:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX38 min
Aug 11, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLWX41 min
Aug 13, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX35 min
Aug 13, 2:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX34 min
Aug 25, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX49 min
Aug 28, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX41 min
Oct 4, 5:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX31 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.