Weather alerts in Pike County, Kentucky, 2009

189 weather alerts in 2009, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Pike County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2009. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 189
Warnings: 62
Watches: 33
Advisories: 63
Busiest month: May50 alerts
Busiest day: May 9, 200914 alerts

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

Pike County, 2009

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
Tornado warnings	0			0
Severe thunderstorm warnings	31	18	42%	21	57%	20 min
Flash flood warnings	13	9	31%	22	77%	58 min

Each office's whole area, 2009

	Warnings	With a report	False alarm ratio	Reports	Inside a warning	Mean lead time
NWS Jackson, KY: tornado warnings	43	3	93%	10	30%	5 min
NWS Jackson, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings	241	131	46%	359	73%	23 min
NWS Jackson, KY: flash flood warnings	68	33	51%	117	79%	105 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 5, 11:21 AM EST	Flood Watch	JKL	43 hr
Jan 7, 2:47 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	31 hr
Jan 7, 3:21 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	10 hr
Jan 7, 5:47 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	6 hr
Jan 10, 4:25 AM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	JKL	5 hr
Jan 15, 3:24 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	JKL	18 hr
Jan 17, 10:24 PM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	JKL	14 hr
Jan 18, 3:34 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	20 hr
Jan 25, 3:56 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	JKL	25 hr
Jan 26, 4:50 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	JKL	59 hr
Jan 26, 10:36 AM EST	Flood Watch	JKL	48 hr
Jan 27, 12:44 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Jan 27, 7:06 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Jan 28, 10:54 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	5 hr
Jan 28, 11:23 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	4 hr
Feb 2, 4:30 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	51 hr
Feb 3, 10:32 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	JKL	20 hr
Feb 10, 3:48 AM EST	High Wind Watch	JKL	11 hr
Feb 10, 2:25 PM EST	High Wind Warning	JKL	38 hr
Feb 11, 1:35 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Feb 11, 1:59 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
Feb 11, 4:34 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	86 min
Feb 11, 4:55 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	65 min
Feb 18, 12:09 PM EST	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Feb 18, 2:57 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	48 min
Feb 18, 3:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	48 min
Feb 21, 5:06 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	35 hr
Feb 28, 3:55 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	27 hr
Mar 12, 3:33 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	16 hr
Mar 12, 10:39 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	3 hr
Mar 16, 9:16 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	14 hr
Mar 29, 10:18 AM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JKL	5 hr
Apr 2, 4:35 AM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JKL	35 hr
Apr 5, 8:12 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
Apr 5, 8:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr
Apr 5, 10:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	46 min
Apr 6, 12:08 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	67 min
Apr 6, 3:55 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	JKL	37 hr
Apr 6, 3:55 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	JKL	31 hr
Apr 6, 3:55 AM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	40 hr
Apr 7, 4:36 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	JKL	17 hr
Apr 10, 2:51 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	6 hr
Apr 10, 4:25 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	5 hr
Apr 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	63 min
Apr 10, 6:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	51 min
Apr 10, 6:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	48 min
Apr 11, 3:20 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	JKL	19 hr
May 3, 2:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	8 hr
May 3, 10:33 PM EDT	Flood Watch	JKL	12 hr
May 4, 2:18 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	4 hr
May 5, 4:00 PM EDT	Flood Watch	JKL	29 hr
May 8, 3:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	35 hr
May 8, 4:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
May 8, 4:42 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 8, 6:03 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	87 min
May 8, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	45 min
May 8, 7:15 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
May 8, 8:30 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
May 8, 8:30 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	90 min
May 8, 11:29 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
May 8, 11:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr
May 9, 1:58 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	JKL	3 hr
May 9, 2:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	6 hr
May 9, 2:17 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	6 hr
May 9, 2:56 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	23 min
May 9, 3:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	30 min
May 9, 4:39 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning Emergency	JKL	3 hr
May 9, 4:47 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
May 9, 5:34 AM EDT	River Flood Advisory	JKL	21 hr
May 9, 7:11 AM EDT	River Flood Warning	RLX	32 hr
May 9, 7:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	30 hr
May 10, 1:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	6 hr
May 10, 2:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	6 hr
May 15, 6:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	41 min
May 15, 6:59 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	2 hr
May 15, 9:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	117 min
May 16, 2:46 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
May 16, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	36 min
May 17, 3:44 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	JKL	17 hr
May 18, 3:20 PM EDT	Frost Advisory	JKL	18 hr
May 26, 6:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	49 min
May 27, 4:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	4 hr
May 28, 2:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr
May 28, 4:54 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	66 min
May 28, 7:34 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
May 28, 8:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	61 min
May 28, 11:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	56 min
May 29, 12:16 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	29 min
May 29, 12:30 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	60 min
May 30, 3:51 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	84 min
May 30, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	11 hr
May 30, 7:01 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	59 min
May 30, 9:53 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	67 min
May 30, 11:37 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	23 min
May 31, 1:37 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	53 min
May 31, 2:54 AM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	2 hr
May 31, 3:07 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	38 min
Jun 2, 4:47 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	88 min
Jun 2, 5:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	37 min
Jun 2, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	51 min
Jun 2, 6:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	44 min
Jun 2, 6:31 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jun 8, 3:24 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Jun 10, 2:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	5 hr
Jun 11, 9:26 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jun 11, 10:26 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	17 hr
Jun 11, 11:00 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	89 min
Jun 11, 2:55 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	65 min
Jun 11, 3:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	44 min
Jun 11, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	45 min
Jun 11, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	64 min
Jun 11, 4:33 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jun 11, 4:46 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	6 hr
Jun 13, 6:25 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	4 hr
Jun 14, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	3 hr
Jun 14, 7:05 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	55 min
Jun 14, 7:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	46 min
Jun 15, 6:25 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jun 16, 2:10 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	35 min
Jun 17, 12:58 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jun 17, 2:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	4 hr
Jun 17, 9:56 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	4 hr
Jun 17, 11:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	4 hr
Jun 17, 12:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	8 hr
Jun 17, 12:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr
Jun 17, 2:52 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	53 min
Jun 17, 3:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
Jun 17, 3:17 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	28 min
Jun 17, 3:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jun 17, 3:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
Jun 17, 4:07 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	23 min
Jun 17, 4:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
Jun 18, 1:21 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	2 hr
Jun 18, 1:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	46 min
Jun 26, 4:53 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	52 min
Jun 28, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	39 min
Jun 28, 4:04 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	56 min
Jun 28, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	20 min
Jul 1, 3:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	37 min
Jul 6, 4:00 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	6 hr
Jul 10, 5:36 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Jul 20, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	19 min
Jul 20, 6:20 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	85 min
Jul 20, 6:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	30 min
Jul 25, 2:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr
Jul 25, 7:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	119 min
Jul 26, 8:25 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	2 hr
Jul 26, 7:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	114 min
Jul 26, 8:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	109 min
Jul 30, 3:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	19 hr
Aug 1, 3:22 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	8 hr
Aug 1, 4:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	11 hr
Aug 4, 10:57 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	25 hr
Aug 12, 3:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
Aug 12, 7:08 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
Aug 12, 10:07 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	JKL	3 hr
Aug 12, 5:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	2 hr
Aug 13, 12:15 AM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	10 hr
Sep 7, 10:30 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	12 hr
Sep 24, 6:05 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	115 min
Sep 25, 4:19 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	JKL	41 hr
Sep 26, 2:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	3 hr
Oct 8, 4:07 PM EDT	Lake Wind Advisory	JKL	26 hr
Oct 9, 3:17 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	4 hr
Oct 9, 3:39 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	96 min
Oct 9, 5:52 PM EDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	83 min
Oct 9, 5:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	36 min
Oct 9, 6:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	36 min
Oct 9, 6:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	JKL	31 min
Oct 17, 4:20 PM EDT	Freeze Watch	JKL	12 hr
Oct 18, 3:51 AM EDT	Freeze Warning	JKL	30 hr
Oct 28, 3:48 PM EDT	Dense Fog Advisory	JKL	18 hr
Dec 1, 10:12 PM EST	Lake Wind Advisory	JKL	20 hr
Dec 4, 2:50 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	24 hr
Dec 7, 3:42 PM EST	High Wind Watch	JKL	24 hr
Dec 8, 3:12 PM EST	High Wind Warning	JKL	30 hr
Dec 8, 11:42 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	9 hr
Dec 9, 1:21 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	6 hr
Dec 9, 7:31 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	JKL	6 hr
Dec 12, 9:40 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	6 hr
Dec 17, 4:01 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	JKL	13 hr
Dec 18, 4:50 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	JKL	46 hr
Dec 18, 4:50 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	JKL	53 hr
Dec 18, 7:22 PM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Dec 19, 12:34 AM EST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	5 hr
Dec 22, 4:03 AM EST	Freezing Fog Advisory	JKL	6 hr
Dec 23, 4:35 PM EST	Wind Advisory	JKL	29 hr
Dec 24, 10:01 PM EST	High Wind Warning	JKL	11 hr
Dec 25, 9:10 AM EST	Wind Advisory	JKL	7 hr

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	31
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	7
Tornado Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	31
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	8
Flash Flood Warning	13
River Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Watch	11
Flood Watch	4
Areal Flood Advisory	30
River Flood Advisory	1
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	2
Freezing Rain Advisory	2
Winter Weather Advisory	11
Cold
Freeze Warning	3
Freeze Watch	2
Frost Advisory	3
Wind Chill Advisory	1
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	3
High Wind Watch	2
Lake Wind Advisory	4
Wind Advisory	2
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	8
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record Forecast The radar archive 2008 2010

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.