Alert archive / Kentucky

Weather alerts in Bath County, Kentucky

3,450 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Bath County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,450
Warnings
876
Watches
550
Advisories
969
Busiest year
2015225 alerts
Average year
91over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 50% of tornado reports in Bath County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 87% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%10%
200910100%0
201150100%0
20125340%1100%11 min
201310100%0
20145180%250%17 min
201710100%0
201810100%0
202330100%0
202440100%0
202540100%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008161413%7100%32 min
2009191426%683%18 min
201015753%2100%12 min
2011382047%2564%26 min
2012352529%1675%15 min
201313128%1060%25 min
2014151220%8100%31 min
2015241921%1788%19 min
201610730%20%
201711827%875%24 min
20188538%1100%30 min
2019151033%8100%15 min
202014936%580%19 min
20218625%1100%22 min
2022221627%2433%15 min
2023271641%5100%17 min
2024211719%1090%23 min
2025211433%4100%27 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008220%2100%44 min
20096350%0
20106517%2100%105 min
20118450%450%41 min
20124175%0
20133167%3100%153 min
2014440%1100%14 min
201513469%6100%39 min
20163167%0
20172150%3100%102 min
201811736%757%65 min
20198538%580%23 min
20207357%0
20215340%650%103 min
202210100%0
202330100%0
202410100%0
202511464%0

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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 4, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL17 min
Sep 4, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL23 min
Aug 22, 6:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL33 min
Aug 22, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL47 min
Aug 22, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL34 min
Aug 22, 5:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL37 min
Aug 22, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL37 min
Aug 16, 7:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL25 min
Aug 16, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL29 min
Aug 16, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL35 min
Aug 15, 5:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL3 hr
Aug 15, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL33 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.