Alert archive / Kentucky

Weather alerts in Monroe County, Kentucky

2,946 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Monroe County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,946
Warnings
578
Watches
581
Advisories
697
Busiest year
2011187 alerts
Average year
80over 37 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, 31% of tornado reports in Monroe County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 6 minutes before, and 68% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086433%2100%11 min
20093167%20%
2010110%1100%2 min
201120100%30%
201240100%0
201520100%0
201810100%0
202110100%20%
2023110%1100%1 min
20242150%20%
202520100%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
20088538%1145%20 min
2009191047%1258%20 min
201017853%786%5 min
2011331555%1155%6 min
201214936%875%15 min
20136433%250%26 min
201410550%1100%12 min
20159367%650%9 min
201611736%4100%12 min
201714843%450%19 min
201818856%6100%20 min
20194325%2100%23 min
202020100%30%
202111645%5100%8 min
202214843%580%5 min
2023191426%5100%13 min
2024161131%580%19 min
202516663%20%

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008110%333%58 min
20094250%0
20106183%1100%58 min
2011220%0
201320100%0
201410100%0
2015110%250%30 min
201630100%0
2017110%0
20184175%3100%27 min
2019220%1100%65 min
2020110%1100%10 min
20214325%367%99 min
2022110%0
2024110%0
20256350%1100%103 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
Aug 22, 4:43 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Jul 21, 7:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMK2 hr
Jul 21, 6:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK51 min
Jul 21, 5:58 PM CDTTornado WarningLMK47 min
Jul 17, 8:42 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLMK2 hr
Jun 29, 10:47 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningLMK4 days
Jun 28, 9:41 AM CDTRiver Flood WarningLMK11 hr
Jun 27, 9:58 PM CDTAreal Flood WarningLMK6 hr
Apr 4, 5:37 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK23 min
Mar 27, 2:07 AM CDTFreeze WarningLMK31 hr
Mar 16, 12:20 AM CDTTornado WarningLMK28 min
Mar 16, 12:13 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatLMK47 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.