Alert archive / Kentucky

Weather alerts in Bullitt County, Kentucky

3,396 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Bullitt County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,396
Warnings
873
Watches
571
Advisories
722
Busiest year
2011206 alerts
Average year
83over 41 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, 60% of tornado reports in Bullitt County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 15 minutes before, and 63% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%0
20102150%1100%9 min
20112150%0
20124175%0
20132150%0
2014010%
2015110%1100%11 min
201720100%0
201810100%0
2021110%0
20223167%10%
202420100%0
20256267%1100%25 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200813931%560%15 min
200913562%1100%13 min
2010161131%875%23 min
2011301550%933%4 min
2012512747%1479%19 min
201312925%580%10 min
201410460%367%13 min
2015342138%1182%15 min
2016261831%1593%22 min
2017231152%683%14 min
2018251732%1479%8 min
20198538%425%12 min
20209722%20%
20213233%10%
202212833%1100%2 min
2023302033%15100%13 min
2024191616%5100%8 min
2025221532%2955%18 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008220%10%
200910100%20%
20102150%250%37 min
20115340%1100%60 min
201210100%0
201410100%0
201510820%650%51 min
2016220%1100%41 min
2017110%1100%55 min
20184325%3100%64 min
2019110%1100%95 min
20206433%0
20213233%1100%29 min
202210100%0
2023550%9100%64 min
2024110%0
2025171418%475%141 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.

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 18, 4:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK26 min
Aug 16, 7:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Aug 16, 6:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK35 min
Aug 11, 7:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK33 min
Jul 21, 8:28 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLMK3 hr
Jul 21, 7:48 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLMK3 hr
Jul 21, 6:57 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningLMK3 hr
Jul 21, 5:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningLMK3 hr
Jul 21, 4:30 PM EDTTornado WarningLMK30 min
Jul 21, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK30 min
Jul 21, 4:02 PM EDTTornado WarningLMK28 min
Jul 21, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK33 min

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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.