Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, May 2008
39 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2008. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 39
- Busiest day
- May 11, 200821 severe thunderstorm warnings
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 11:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 31 min |
| May 2, 11:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg, Todd | 35 min |
| May 2, 11:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 30 min |
| May 2, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 40 min |
| May 2, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Jefferson | 34 min |
| May 2, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 26 min |
| May 2, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall | 33 min |
| May 2, 3:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Lyon, Trigg | 30 min |
| May 2, 4:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Trigg | 24 min |
| May 2, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 20 min |
| May 2, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 23 min |
| May 2, 8:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Hickman | 30 min |
| May 2, 8:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 27 min |
| May 2, 8:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves, McCracken | 32 min |
| May 2, 9:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 26 min |
| May 9, 7:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 35 min |
| May 11, 7:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer | 48 min |
| May 11, 8:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Franklin, Henry, Shelby | 33 min |
| May 11, 8:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle | 34 min |
| May 11, 8:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 23 min |
| May 11, 9:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 31 min |
| May 11, 9:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell, Rowan | 35 min |
| May 11, 9:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Laurel, Owsley | 34 min |
| May 11, 9:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Carter | 51 min |
| May 11, 9:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bath, Elliott, Fleming, Menifee, Montgomery, Powell and 1 more | 32 min |
| May 11, 10:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 11, 10:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Elliott, Johnson, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Rowan and 1 more | 47 min |
| May 11, 10:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 62 min |
| May 11, 10:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Knott, Magoffin, Perry | 31 min |
| May 11, 10:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 30 min |
| May 11, 10:36 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 54 min |
| May 11, 10:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry | 38 min |
| May 11, 10:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd, Johnson, Magoffin, Martin | 33 min |
| May 11, 10:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 19 min |
| May 11, 11:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Martin | 24 min |
| May 11, 11:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 17 min |
| May 11, 1:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | RLX | Boyd | 39 min |
| May 31, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Whitley | 34 min |
| May 31, 7:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary | 22 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Graves County4
- Laurel County4
- Martin County3
- Whitley County3
- Menifee County3
- Rowan County3
- Carter County3
- Johnson County3
- Magoffin County3
- Boyd County3
- Perry County3
- Muhlenberg County2
- Jefferson County2
- Calloway County2
- Marshall County2
- Trigg County2
- Shelby County2
- Pulaski County2
- McCreary County2
- Bath County2
- Fleming County2
- Montgomery County2
- Powell County2
- Elliott County2
- Lawrence County2
- Knott County2
- Leslie County2
- Letcher County2
- Floyd County2
- Christian County1
- Todd County1
- Hopkins County1
- Daviess County1
- Lyon County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carlisle County1
- Hickman County1
- McCracken County1
- Bullitt County1
- Nelson County1
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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.