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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Henry County, Kentucky

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

Henry County and its neighbors

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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
347
Busiest year
201123 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
9over 40 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, 73% of hail, wind and damage reports in Henry County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 44% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200811827%4100%10 min
200912467%3100%12 min
201015753%771%15 min
2011231152%850%11 min
2012191047%20%
20139456%2100%4 min
2014171041%978%15 min
2015201335%367%13 min
2016131115%1292%18 min
201715753%7100%18 min
201811464%786%15 min
201917947%367%16 min
20206433%650%7 min
20213167%10%
202214843%367%15 min
2023161038%367%9 min
202413838%425%29 min
202510820%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 5, 6:06 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK24 min
Jul 27, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK45 min
Jul 27, 8:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK39 min
Jul 17, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK30 min
Jun 21, 10:06 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK39 min
Jun 18, 3:32 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK43 min
May 19, 7:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK26 min
May 19, 5:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK33 min
May 16, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK38 min
Apr 28, 12:58 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Apr 27, 7:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK50 min
Mar 16, 12:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK34 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.