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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Grayson County, Virginia, 2013

14 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
14
Busiest month
July5 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
January 30, 20132 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.

8 of 14 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Grayson County in 2013 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 4 of 4 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 10 minutes after it went out.

Grayson County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings14843%4100%10 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Blacksburg, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings19812636%38978%24 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 30, 2:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK61 min
Jan 30, 3:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Jun 13, 1:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK53 min
Jun 13, 2:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK59 min
Jun 25, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK61 min
Jun 30, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK43 min
Jul 5, 5:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK60 min
Jul 7, 3:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK63 min
Jul 17, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK61 min
Jul 19, 11:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK47 min
Jul 19, 1:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
Aug 31, 2:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK54 min
Sep 1, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK58 min
Dec 6, 8:58 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK47 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.