Alert archive / Kentucky / 2008
Weather alerts in Kentucky, August 2008
29 weather alerts in August 2008, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 29
- Warnings
- 14
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 9
- Busiest day
- August 30, 20088 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 6:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 1, 10:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 2, 12:25 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 3, 2:52 PM EDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more | 28 hr |
| Aug 5, 5:15 AM EDT | Heat Advisory | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 15 hr |
| Aug 5, 1:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Daviess, Henderson, Union, Webster | 94 min |
| Aug 5, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 28 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 35 min |
| Aug 5, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 25 min |
| Aug 5, 8:56 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Adair, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Casey, Daviess and 20 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 6:41 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 65 more | 64 min |
| Aug 6, 9:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Metcalfe | 35 min |
| Aug 23, 1:44 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | PAH | Ballard | 8 hr |
| Aug 25, 5:59 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Morgan | 70 min |
| Aug 27, 9:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Letcher | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 2:36 AM EDT | Dense Fog Advisory | JKL | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Harlan and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 29, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Boone, Kenton | 58 min |
| Aug 29, 4:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Boone | 111 min |
| Aug 29, 5:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Owen | 41 min |
| Aug 29, 5:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | ILN | Owen | 2 hr |
| Aug 29, 6:04 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Owen | 116 min |
| Aug 30, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott | 43 min |
| Aug 30, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Pike | 49 min |
| Aug 30, 4:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 29 min |
| Aug 30, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 48 min |
| Aug 30, 4:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 46 min |
| Aug 30, 4:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | JKL | Floyd | 85 min |
| Aug 30, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Leslie, Owsley, Perry | 26 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 12 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 3 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 4 |
| Heat | |
| Heat Advisory | 3 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Breckinridge County6
- Daviess County6
- Henderson County6
- Meade County6
- Owen County5
- Bullitt County4
- Hancock County4
- Hardin County4
- Jefferson County4
- Larue County4
- Nelson County4
- Spencer County4
- Boone County4
- Ballard County4
- Livingston County4
- Union County4
- Webster County4
- Floyd County4
- Oldham County3
- Shelby County3
- Caldwell County3
- Calloway County3
- Carlisle County3
- Fulton County3
- Graves County3
- Hickman County3
- McCracken County3
- Marshall County3
- McLean County3
- Butler County3
- Casey County3
- Edmonson County3
- Grayson County3
- Green County3
- Hart County3
- Marion County3
- Metcalfe County3
- Ohio County3
- Taylor County3
- Washington County3
70 more counties
- Breathitt County3
- Morgan County3
- Owsley County3
- Clay County3
- Harlan County3
- Knott County3
- Leslie County3
- Pike County3
- Henry County2
- Trimble County2
- Bracken County2
- Carroll County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Mason County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Christian County2
- Lyon County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Crittenden County2
- Hopkins County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Adair County2
- Anderson County2
- Boyle County2
- Cumberland County2
- Mercer County2
- Lee County2
- Wolfe County2
- Letcher County2
- Bell County2
- Knox County2
- Perry County2
- Campbell County1
- Lewis County1
- Barren County1
- Clinton County1
- Monroe County1
- Russell County1
- Warren County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Clark County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Franklin County1
- Garrard County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nicholas County1
- Powell County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Rowan County1
- Scott County1
- Woodford County1
- Elliott County1
- Johnson County1
- McCreary County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Whitley County1
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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. Rebuilt daily.