Alert archive / Kentucky / McCracken County

Weather alerts in McCracken County, Kentucky, 2025

190 weather alerts in 2025, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

McCracken County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 190
Warnings: 56
Watches: 26
Advisories: 47
Busiest month: May37 alerts
Busiest day: May 16, 202513 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

3 of 10 tornado warnings covering McCracken County in 2025 had a tornado report inside them; 1 of 1 tornado reports fell inside a warning, on average 21 minutes after it went out.

McCracken County, 2025

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	10	3	70%	1	100%	21 min
Severe thunderstorm warnings	26	11	58%	12	50%	17 min
Flash flood warnings	7	3	57%	1	100%	50 min

Each office's whole area, 2025

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Paducah, KY: tornado warnings	156	60	62%	106	84%	21 min
NWS Paducah, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings	414	154	63%	358	66%	20 min
NWS Paducah, KY: flash flood warnings	91	51	44%	127	85%	353 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, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 2, 2:18 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	PAH	35 hr
Jan 4, 1:46 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	58 hr
Jan 5, 2:40 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Jan 5, 7:56 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	4 hr
Jan 8, 1:39 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	PAH	55 hr
Jan 18, 1:24 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	PAH	47 hr
Jan 20, 12:13 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	PAH	27 hr
Jan 21, 2:52 AM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	PAH	30 hr
Jan 29, 12:43 PM CST	Flood Watch	PAH	37 hr
Jan 30, 3:30 PM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	5 hr
Feb 13, 1:30 AM CST	Flood Watch	PAH	3 days
Feb 15, 8:44 AM CST	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	5 hr
Feb 15, 11:29 AM CST	River Flood Warning	PAH	13 days
Feb 15, 1:40 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	6 hr
Feb 15, 5:36 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	7 hr
Feb 15, 7:45 PM CST	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	4 hr
Feb 15, 11:18 PM CST	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	8 hr
Feb 16, 12:41 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	6 hr
Feb 16, 1:53 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	6 hr
Feb 16, 9:41 AM CST	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	32 hr
Feb 16, 1:33 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	PAH	24 hr
Feb 17, 2:20 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	PAH	54 hr
Feb 18, 12:42 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	PAH	45 hr
Feb 18, 6:01 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Mar 3, 1:52 PM CST	Wind Advisory	PAH	52 hr
Mar 4, 3:44 AM CST	Wind Advisory	PAH	38 hr
Mar 4, 7:46 PM CST	Wind Advisory	PAH	22 hr
Mar 13, 2:30 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	PAH	50 hr
Mar 14, 7:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	10 hr
Mar 14, 11:50 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Mar 15, 1:33 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	42 min
Mar 15, 2:05 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	40 min
Mar 15, 2:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	45 min
Mar 15, 2:24 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	33 min
Mar 15, 2:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	50 min
Mar 15, 2:56 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	34 min
Mar 15, 3:15 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	45 min
Mar 15, 10:27 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	48 min
Mar 15, 10:30 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	45 min
Mar 15, 10:33 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	17 min
Mar 18, 11:01 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	PAH	37 hr
Mar 19, 2:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Mar 23, 3:16 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Mar 23, 5:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	27 min
Mar 23, 5:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	55 min
Mar 30, 2:35 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Mar 30, 5:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Mar 30, 6:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	38 min
Mar 30, 6:24 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	12 min
Mar 30, 6:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	42 min
Mar 30, 7:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	39 min
Mar 31, 12:40 PM CDT	Flood Watch	PAH	6 days
Apr 1, 12:43 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	PAH	35 hr
Apr 2, 12:51 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
Apr 2, 2:52 PM CDT	Tornado Watch PDS	SPC	9 hr
Apr 2, 5:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Apr 2, 5:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	47 min
Apr 2, 7:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Apr 2, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	52 min
Apr 2, 8:04 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	26 min
Apr 2, 8:18 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	42 min
Apr 2, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	43 min
Apr 2, 8:38 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	52 min
Apr 2, 10:21 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	3 hr
Apr 3, 1:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	PAH	19 days
Apr 3, 8:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
Apr 4, 2:56 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Apr 4, 9:23 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	67 min
Apr 4, 9:41 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 4, 10:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	42 min
Apr 4, 10:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	6 hr
Apr 4, 11:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Apr 5, 1:03 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Apr 5, 5:07 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	42 hr
Apr 6, 1:21 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	PAH	24 hr
Apr 7, 1:23 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	PAH	32 hr
Apr 7, 9:08 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	6 days
Apr 10, 12:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Apr 10, 2:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 13, 9:00 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	PAH	51 hr
Apr 20, 7:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	89 min
Apr 20, 9:48 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr
Apr 20, 11:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Apr 29, 8:30 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
Apr 29, 12:52 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Apr 29, 1:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr
May 1, 6:19 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
May 6, 2:15 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	7 hr
May 8, 11:10 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	95 min
May 8, 12:25 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 8, 1:31 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	89 min
May 8, 3:06 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	84 min
May 8, 3:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	92 min
May 12, 7:46 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	108 min
May 13, 2:51 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	5 hr
May 15, 3:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
May 16, 1:46 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	119 min
May 16, 1:55 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	50 min
May 16, 2:28 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
May 16, 5:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	58 min
May 16, 6:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	65 min
May 16, 6:35 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
May 16, 7:40 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 16, 2:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 16, 2:59 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 16, 4:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	48 min
May 16, 5:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	43 min
May 16, 5:06 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	114 min
May 16, 6:56 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 16, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	26 min
May 16, 7:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	41 min
May 16, 7:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	42 min
May 20, 1:07 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
May 20, 2:15 AM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr
May 20, 3:07 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	30 min
May 20, 1:09 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 20, 3:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	44 min
May 20, 3:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
May 20, 3:34 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	41 min
May 20, 3:37 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	50 min
May 21, 12:33 PM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	PAH	6 hr
May 30, 8:42 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	PAH	9 hr
May 31, 1:54 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	PAH	16 hr
Jun 3, 1:40 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	PAH	17 hr
Jun 6, 11:49 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	116 min
Jun 6, 1:11 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Jun 6, 1:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	43 min
Jun 9, 5:09 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	96 min
Jun 9, 5:42 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	33 min
Jun 16, 1:40 AM CDT	Flood Watch	PAH	22 hr
Jun 18, 2:13 AM CDT	Lake Wind Advisory	PAH	17 hr
Jun 18, 1:44 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Jun 18, 2:07 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jun 19, 1:31 AM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	3 hr
Jun 20, 1:51 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	8 days
Jun 28, 10:29 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	46 min
Jun 28, 10:40 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	3 hr
Jul 6, 12:09 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 7, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	52 min
Jul 8, 2:13 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	6 hr
Jul 10, 3:40 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	5 hr
Jul 12, 11:42 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Jul 12, 3:29 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	91 min
Jul 12, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	25 min
Jul 13, 1:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 16, 1:46 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	17 hr
Jul 16, 9:57 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	21 hr
Jul 17, 12:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Jul 17, 2:57 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	2 hr
Jul 17, 2:59 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	16 min
Jul 18, 1:35 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	17 hr
Jul 18, 12:20 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	115 min
Jul 18, 3:51 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	3 hr
Jul 18, 4:06 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	PAH	3 hr
Jul 19, 2:48 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	17 hr
Jul 19, 2:48 AM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	6 days
Jul 19, 7:46 PM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	9 days
Jul 21, 4:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	37 min
Jul 23, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	49 min
Jul 23, 5:28 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	69 min
Jul 25, 1:41 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Watch	PAH	3 days
Jul 27, 1:50 PM CDT	Extreme Heat Warning	PAH	3 days
Aug 4, 7:03 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	PAH	3 hr
Aug 16, 1:41 AM CDT	Heat Advisory	PAH	4 days
Aug 19, 3:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	52 min
Aug 19, 4:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	48 min
Sep 14, 3:12 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Oct 18, 4:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
Oct 18, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	PAH	23 min
Oct 23, 2:13 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	PAH	30 hr
Nov 7, 9:25 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	13 hr
Nov 18, 2:56 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Nov 18, 4:28 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Nov 18, 6:09 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Nov 20, 7:26 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	10 hr
Nov 22, 9:54 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	13 hr
Nov 23, 5:54 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	15 hr
Nov 30, 12:16 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	PAH	39 hr
Dec 12, 1:31 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	PAH	46 hr
Dec 18, 10:44 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
Dec 18, 3:25 PM CST	Tornado Warning	PAH	22 min
Dec 18, 3:48 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	117 min
Dec 23, 7:09 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	17 hr
Dec 26, 11:32 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	PAH	12 hr
Dec 28, 8:28 AM CST	Wind Advisory	PAH	26 hr
Dec 28, 2:47 PM CST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Dec 28, 6:15 PM CST	Special Weather Statement	PAH	60 min
Dec 28, 6:50 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PAH	40 min
Dec 28, 6:58 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Dec 28, 7:20 PM CST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	PAH	40 min

By product

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

Product	Alerts
Severe storms
Severe Thunderstorm Warning	26
Tornado Warning	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	5
Tornado Watch	13
Mesoscale Discussion	46
Special Weather Statement	15
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	6
Flash Flood Warning	7
River Flood Warning	2
Flood Watch	4
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	2
Winter Storm Watch	2
Winter Weather Advisory	3
Heat
Extreme Heat Warning	2
Extreme Heat Watch	1
Heat Advisory	7
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Freeze Watch	1
Cold Weather Advisory	5
Frost Advisory	1
Wind and dust
Lake Wind Advisory	5
Wind Advisory	7
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	10

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.