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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Frederick County, Virginia, 2010

22 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2010. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Frederick County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2010. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
22
Busiest month
April8 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 25, 20104 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 22 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Frederick County in 2010 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 18 of 19 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 28 minutes after it went out.

Frederick County, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings221627%1995%28 min

Each office's whole area, 2010

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Baltimore/Washington: severe thunderstorm warnings25719823%76286%21 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
Apr 25, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX46 min
Apr 25, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX34 min
Apr 25, 6:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX51 min
Apr 25, 7:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX51 min
Apr 25, 8:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX42 min
Apr 25, 8:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX47 min
Apr 25, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX40 min
Apr 25, 9:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX43 min
May 27, 8:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX47 min
May 27, 9:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX38 min
May 31, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX14 min
Jun 3, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX49 min
Jun 6, 12:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX30 min
Jun 6, 12:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX37 min
Jun 24, 1:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX69 min
Jun 24, 3:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX49 min
Jul 25, 2:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX44 min
Aug 4, 6:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX65 min
Aug 4, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX61 min
Sep 16, 10:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX51 min
Sep 16, 11:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX29 min
Sep 28, 6:44 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLWX46 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.