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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Crittenden County, Kentucky

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

Crittenden County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
339
Busiest year
202336 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
9over 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, 66% of hail, wind and damage reports in Crittenden County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 16 minutes before, and 51% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088625%367%12 min
200916756%4100%24 min
201015847%0
2011271833%333%42 min
201221671%30%
20138538%3100%4 min
20143167%0
20156350%0
201613377%10%
2017121017%1100%12 min
20186433%1100%14 min
201915753%2100%17 min
202010370%0
20214175%0
20228450%367%8 min
2023362142%2100%24 min
202416756%0
202527967%333%18 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
Jul 27, 2:23 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH35 min
Jul 26, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH47 min
Jul 26, 7:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH43 min
Jul 26, 7:19 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPAH41 min
Jul 26, 6:29 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatPAH46 min
Jul 26, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatPAH46 min
Jul 5, 6:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH23 min
Jun 27, 2:03 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH42 min
Jun 27, 1:36 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH39 min
Jun 8, 8:24 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH51 min
Apr 28, 12:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH44 min
Apr 27, 11:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH42 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.