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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Natrona County, Wyoming

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

Natrona County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
408
Busiest year
202539 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
10over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 60% of hail, wind and damage reports in Natrona County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 22 minutes before, and 75% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200821671%1173%31 min
200916475%683%8 min
20108275%333%23 min
201113562%1464%34 min
20125260%367%14 min
201314471%1080%29 min
201417476%1283%13 min
201516381%757%30 min
201690100%40%
201710370%729%4 min
2018221055%1872%16 min
201925292%540%8 min
202014471%944%19 min
202180100%20%
202250100%20%
2023361169%3070%26 min
20244250%933%18 min
202539977%2556%19 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

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 latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 19, 6:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW31 min
Sep 19, 6:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW23 min
Aug 22, 7:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW43 min
Jul 6, 5:19 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW41 min
Jul 6, 5:17 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW29 min
Jun 27, 3:13 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW47 min
Jun 25, 2:52 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatRIW68 min
Jun 25, 2:10 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatRIW50 min
Jun 25, 1:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW46 min
Jun 25, 1:40 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW35 min
Jun 25, 1:38 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW52 min
Jun 25, 1:22 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRIW23 min

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.