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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Clinton County, Kentucky

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

Clinton County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
232
Busiest year
201118 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
6over 36 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, 78% of hail, wind and damage reports in Clinton County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 16 minutes before, and 40% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089456%580%21 min
20098538%786%20 min
201010550%475%5 min
201118950%978%19 min
20128625%3100%7 min
20135420%2100%7 min
20146350%333%15 min
2015151033%683%15 min
201611827%1182%15 min
201711736%683%21 min
201810550%333%12 min
2019330%250%33 min
20204250%3100%16 min
20214325%1100%4 min
202211645%540%25 min
202310730%4100%14 min
20248713%786%20 min
202514564%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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 21, 6:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Aug 22, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLMK47 min
Jul 21, 7:12 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK33 min
Jul 21, 6:34 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK41 min
Jul 19, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK36 min
Apr 4, 5:59 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK31 min
Apr 4, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK23 min
Mar 16, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLMK47 min
Mar 11, 3:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK31 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.