Alert archive / Kentucky

Weather alerts in Christian County, Kentucky

3,435 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Christian County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,435
Warnings
1,089
Watches
592
Advisories
783
Busiest year
2025221 alerts
Average year
90over 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, 60% of tornado reports in Christian County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 19 minutes before, and 61% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008220%1100%34 min
200910370%450%21 min
201016756%475%23 min
2011251156%786%20 min
20124250%1100%31 min
20133233%333%25 min
20145260%475%10 min
201510100%0
201611555%1050%19 min
201720100%0
201820100%30%
20194175%30%
20206433%5100%16 min
20217357%250%12 min
20222150%10%
20237186%10%
20246183%1100%11 min
20259367%2100%20 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
200814657%1258%21 min
2009431956%2560%17 min
201018667%1354%18 min
2011281643%2055%19 min
2012391756%3259%16 min
201314564%1354%22 min
20147357%1753%10 min
201510640%5100%30 min
2016191142%1080%18 min
2017161131%1788%21 min
2018151033%1968%13 min
2019141121%2190%30 min
202011373%1070%32 min
202114843%1377%11 min
202215847%967%22 min
2023491765%2339%19 min
2024351460%989%24 min
2025481960%1283%23 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810100%0
200910370%2100%71 min
20103233%250%92 min
201113192%0
20123233%4100%104 min
2013330%0
201430100%0
20152150%1100%97 min
2016220%3100%62 min
2018110%367%18 min
20195260%3100%138 min
20206517%2100%187 min
20217357%367%71 min
20227186%0
20239633%978%46 min
20243233%2100%431 min
20258363%7100%221 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 10, 1:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH43 min
Sep 9, 4:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH21 min
Sep 9, 4:13 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH38 min
Sep 1, 11:46 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH4 days
Aug 20, 1:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH34 min
Aug 20, 1:25 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH65 min
Aug 20, 12:43 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPAH47 min
Aug 10, 12:50 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH7 days
Jul 27, 11:32 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH19 hr
Jul 26, 8:39 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH30 min
Jul 26, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH54 min
Jul 26, 7:40 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH65 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.