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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Elliott County, Kentucky

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

Elliott County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
308
Busiest year
201125 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, 89% of hail, wind and damage reports in Elliott County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 20 minutes before, and 31% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200814936%1100%48 min
2009171229%3100%29 min
201013654%450%17 min
2011251636%6100%23 min
2012201240%1090%13 min
201313130%2100%32 min
2014141121%683%27 min
2015151313%786%25 min
20166517%250%28 min
20175340%3100%15 min
20186433%0
20195340%1100%6 min
20205340%0
20217529%1100%16 min
202212650%1090%9 min
20239544%0
2024161319%3100%20 min
2025191426%3100%23 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
Aug 22, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL47 min
Aug 16, 7:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL33 min
Aug 16, 7:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL29 min
Aug 16, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL32 min
Aug 16, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL31 min
Aug 11, 5:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatJKL39 min
Aug 11, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL16 min
Aug 11, 4:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL37 min
Jul 21, 6:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL31 min
Jun 18, 5:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL37 min
May 20, 3:04 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL26 min
Apr 28, 2:36 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL39 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.