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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Boyd County, Kentucky, 2011

31 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2011. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Boyd County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2011. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
31
Busiest month
May13 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
May 10, 20116 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.

27 of 31 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Boyd County in 2011 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 17 of 18 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 22 minutes after it went out.

Boyd County, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings312713%1894%22 min

Each office's whole area, 2011

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Charleston, WV: severe thunderstorm warnings26817136%44082%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
Feb 28, 6:19 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX56 min
Feb 28, 7:13 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX62 min
Mar 21, 6:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX44 min
Mar 21, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX34 min
Mar 23, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX47 min
Apr 4, 5:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX38 min
Apr 8, 3:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX54 min
Apr 8, 4:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX46 min
Apr 23, 7:03 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX42 min
Apr 23, 4:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX48 min
Apr 23, 5:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX54 min
May 10, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX47 min
May 10, 4:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX48 min
May 10, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX59 min
May 10, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX57 min
May 10, 7:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX48 min
May 10, 7:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX62 min
May 11, 12:08 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX67 min
May 22, 3:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX59 min
May 22, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX63 min
May 22, 5:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX64 min
May 22, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX57 min
May 23, 8:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX64 min
May 23, 9:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX58 min
Jun 7, 4:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX57 min
Jun 21, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX50 min
Jun 23, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX63 min
Jun 23, 6:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX45 min
Jun 23, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX49 min
Jul 22, 4:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX53 min
Sep 26, 1:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningRLX39 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.