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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oldham County, Kentucky, 2012

20 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2012. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Oldham County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
20
Busiest month
July10 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
July 25, 20123 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

14 of 20 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Oldham County in 2012 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 14 of 17 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 11 minutes after it went out.

Oldham County, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings201430%1782%11 min

Each office's whole area, 2012

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Louisville, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings54525653%74562%16 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
Jan 17, 11:25 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK35 min
Jan 23, 2:51 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK24 min
Feb 29, 8:17 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK28 min
Feb 29, 8:30 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK30 min
Mar 2, 4:10 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK35 min
Mar 15, 4:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK24 min
Mar 28, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK28 min
May 4, 4:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK27 min
Jul 1, 8:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK28 min
Jul 1, 8:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Jul 19, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Jul 19, 6:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK32 min
Jul 24, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK30 min
Jul 24, 8:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK28 min
Jul 24, 10:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK28 min
Jul 26, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK28 min
Jul 27, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK27 min
Jul 27, 7:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK29 min
Aug 16, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK45 min
Sep 7, 11:24 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK46 min

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.