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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Henry County, Virginia, 2023

34 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2023. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Henry County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
34
Busiest month
July12 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
April 6, 20235 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.

31 of 34 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Henry County in 2023 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 52 of 69 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 24 minutes after it went out.

Henry County, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings34319%6975%24 min

Each office's whole area, 2023

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Blacksburg, VA: severe thunderstorm warnings22519712%77675%22 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 3, 8:41 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK29 min
Apr 6, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK56 min
Apr 6, 4:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK65 min
Apr 6, 5:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatRNK53 min
Apr 6, 5:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK36 min
Apr 6, 6:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK59 min
Apr 22, 8:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK51 min
Apr 22, 9:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK53 min
May 16, 4:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK52 min
May 16, 6:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK48 min
May 16, 6:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
May 16, 7:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK65 min
Jun 3, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK53 min
Jun 16, 2:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK34 min
Jun 19, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK24 min
Jun 19, 1:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK64 min
Jul 2, 1:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK54 min
Jul 2, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK60 min
Jul 23, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK62 min
Jul 25, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK33 min
Jul 28, 4:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK59 min
Jul 28, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK45 min
Jul 28, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK72 min
Jul 28, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK68 min
Jul 29, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK37 min
Jul 29, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK65 min
Jul 29, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK58 min
Jul 29, 6:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK55 min
Aug 6, 3:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK56 min
Aug 7, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK48 min
Aug 24, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK59 min
Sep 7, 10:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK67 min
Sep 7, 11:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK46 min
Sep 9, 1:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRNK41 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.