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Flash Flood Warnings in Johnson County, Kentucky, 2015

9 flash flood warnings in 2015. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Johnson County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2015. Tap one for its archive.

Flash Flood Warnings
9
Busiest month
July7 flash flood warnings
Busiest day
April 3, 20152 flash flood warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

4 of 9 flash flood warnings covering Johnson County in 2015 had a flash flood report inside them; 8 of 8 flash flood reports fell inside a warning, on average 61 minutes after it went out.

Johnson County, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Flash flood warnings9456%8100%61 min

Each office's whole area, 2015

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Jackson, KY: flash flood warnings884450%15778%86 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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 alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 3, 7:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL5 hr
Apr 3, 5:41 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL4 hr
Jul 5, 9:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL4 hr
Jul 5, 9:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL3 hr
Jul 13, 12:51 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL3 hr
Jul 13, 4:06 PM EDTFlash Flood Warning EmergencyJKL5 hr
Jul 14, 2:40 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL6 hr
Jul 14, 6:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL6 hr
Jul 19, 1:09 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningJKL6 hr

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.