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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Scott County, Kentucky

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

Scott County and its neighbors

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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
332
Busiest year
201229 severe thunderstorm warnings
Average year
9over 38 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

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

From 2008 to 2025, 63% of hail, wind and damage reports in Scott County fell inside a severe thunderstorm warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 37% of the severe thunderstorm warnings had no report inside them.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20089633%450%6 min
20098538%650%7 min
20104250%1100%8 min
2011181328%1471%11 min
2012301743%2080%15 min
201310820%633%10 min
2014151127%1362%8 min
2015171229%6100%15 min
201615940%2100%17 min
2017181328%2085%20 min
201818761%333%6 min
201910460%714%9 min
20208275%520%1 min
20216350%1030%9 min
2022990%1155%13 min
2023171041%4100%16 min
2024151127%667%22 min
2025161038%650%18 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.

The latest severe thunderstorm warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Aug 16, 5:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK26 min
Aug 15, 8:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK21 min
Aug 15, 8:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK29 min
Aug 12, 5:38 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK37 min
Aug 11, 4:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK34 min
Jul 27, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK45 min
Jun 26, 9:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK21 min
Jun 18, 4:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK45 min
Jun 18, 4:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK29 min
Apr 28, 1:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK36 min
Mar 16, 12:55 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK50 min
Mar 16, 12:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLMK34 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.