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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Grayson County, Virginia, 2009

23 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2009. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Grayson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
23
Busiest month
June12 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 2, 20094 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.

13 of 24 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Grayson County in 2009 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 5 of 6 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 25 minutes after it went out.

Grayson County, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings241346%683%25 min

Each office's whole area, 2009

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Blacksburg, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings26414445%34882%26 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
Feb 11, 5:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK240 days
Feb 11, 6:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK46 min
Apr 29, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK49 min
Apr 29, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK78 min
May 8, 7:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK24 min
May 8, 11:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
May 31, 6:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK44 min
Jun 2, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Jun 2, 5:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK56 min
Jun 2, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
Jun 2, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK41 min
Jun 3, 4:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK59 min
Jun 11, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK77 min
Jun 16, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK81 min
Jun 16, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK60 min
Jun 16, 8:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK34 min
Jun 16, 9:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK49 min
Jun 17, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK58 min
Jun 18, 3:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK81 min
Jul 17, 7:33 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK57 min
Aug 5, 1:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK56 min
Aug 5, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK44 min
Sep 9, 12:32 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.