Alert archive / Kentucky

Weather alerts in Livingston County, Kentucky

3,191 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Livingston County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,191
Warnings
851
Watches
626
Advisories
761
Busiest year
2011214 alerts
Average year
84over 38 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

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 100% of tornado reports in Livingston County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 66% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
200910100%0
201010100%0
201160100%0
201230100%0
20138538%1100%28 min
2016110%0
20185340%2100%23 min
20198363%2100%5 min
202030100%0
20213233%1100%0 min
202210100%0
20235180%0
20244175%1100%14 min
20258450%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089722%771%31 min
200919858%1100%31 min
2010201335%6100%19 min
2011362239%667%19 min
201222673%450%24 min
2013440%425%31 min
201420100%10%
20156433%1100%14 min
201611373%333%7 min
201710820%2100%12 min
201813654%333%25 min
201913469%5100%29 min
202012558%0
20215180%0
20227357%20%
2023341750%8100%23 min
2024241154%3100%19 min
2025271063%333%3 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083233%333%12 min
20093167%0
20104175%1100%32 min
201110460%0
20134325%0
2014110%0
20155180%0
20166267%2100%277 min
20172150%0
2018110%0
201910100%0
2020440%0
2021220%1100%271 min
2023440%0
202420100%0
20259544%1100%20 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.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 1, 11:46 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH4 days
Aug 10, 12:50 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH7 days
Jul 27, 3:05 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH20 min
Jul 26, 9:20 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH40 min
Jul 26, 8:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH48 min
Jul 26, 8:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH47 min
Jul 26, 8:23 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH54 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 25, 11:30 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH68 hr
Jul 21, 4:51 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPAH39 min
Jul 20, 8:38 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningPAH34 hr

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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.