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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Campbell County, Kentucky

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

Campbell County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
399
Busiest year
201228 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
11over 38 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, 80% of hail, wind and damage reports in Campbell County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 19 minutes before, and 24% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200812833%250%24 min
2009171418%1100%35 min
2010191616%580%21 min
2011242113%989%21 min
2012282221%967%22 min
2013171512%7100%29 min
20148625%1100%5 min
2015191521%1479%14 min
201617166%1587%17 min
2017201145%5100%23 min
20189811%367%31 min
2019221914%1173%8 min
2020181233%580%23 min
202111827%10%
2022141121%7100%22 min
202314750%0
202412742%425%3 min
2025211433%978%16 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 5, 8:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN42 min
Sep 4, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN17 min
Aug 12, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN42 min
Aug 11, 4:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN54 min
Aug 11, 3:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN43 min
Aug 11, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatILN52 min
Jul 27, 7:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN47 min
Jul 21, 2:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN49 min
Jun 18, 4:12 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN46 min
May 19, 8:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN9 min
May 16, 7:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN37 min
Apr 28, 1:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningILN43 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.