Extreme Heat Warnings in Kentucky
17 extreme heat warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of extreme heat warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Heat Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Heat Warnings
- 17
- Busiest year
- 202611 extreme heat warnings
- Average year
- 9over 2 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County7
- Caldwell County7
- Calloway County7
- Carlisle County7
- Christian County7
- Fulton County7
- Graves County7
- Hickman County7
- McCracken County7
- Marshall County7
- Crittenden County6
- Daviess County6
- Henderson County6
- Hopkins County6
- Livingston County6
- Lyon County6
- McLean County6
- Muhlenberg County6
- Todd County6
- Trigg County6
- Union County6
- Webster County6
- Boyd County4
- Carter County3
- Greenup County3
- Lawrence County3
- Breckinridge County2
- Butler County2
- Edmonson County2
- Grayson County2
- Hancock County2
- Logan County2
- Ohio County2
- Simpson County2
- Warren County2
- Bell County2
- Breathitt County2
- Clay County2
- Elliott County2
- Floyd County2
80 more counties
- Harlan County2
- Johnson County2
- Knott County2
- Knox County2
- Lee County2
- Leslie County2
- Letcher County2
- Magoffin County2
- Martin County2
- Morgan County2
- Owsley County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Wolfe County2
- Adair County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Barren County1
- Bath County1
- Boone County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Bracken County1
- Bullitt County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Garrard County1
- Grant County1
- Green County1
- Hardin County1
- Harrison County1
- Hart County1
- Henry County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Kenton County1
- Larue County1
- Laurel County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCreary County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Meade County1
- Menifee County1
- Mercer County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nelson County1
- Nicholas County1
- Oldham County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
- Robertson County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Rowan County1
- Russell County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Taylor County1
- Trimble County1
- Washington County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Woodford County1
The latest extreme heat warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 1, 12:46 PM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 4 days |
| Aug 10, 1:50 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 days |
| Jul 28, 12:32 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian | 19 hr |
| Jul 26, 12:30 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 68 hr |
| Jul 20, 9:38 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 34 hr |
| Jul 3, 7:59 PM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | JKL | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Harlan and 13 more | 24 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:09 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 5 days |
| Jun 30, 12:43 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | ILN | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 4 days |
| Jun 29, 12:00 PM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 4 days |
| Jun 29, 11:47 AM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | LMK | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 4 days |
| Jun 28, 12:28 PM EDT | Extreme Heat Warning | PAH | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 5 days |
Nearby
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.