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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Wolfe County, Kentucky, 2013

19 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2013. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Wolfe County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2013. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
19
Busiest month
June4 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
November 1, 20134 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.

19 of 19 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Wolfe County in 2013 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 11 of 13 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 18 minutes after it went out.

Wolfe County, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings19190%1385%18 min

Each office's whole area, 2013

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Jackson, KY: severe thunderstorm warnings1108919%28274%23 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 30, 6:41 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL49 min
Jan 30, 7:28 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL47 min
May 21, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL42 min
May 21, 5:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL35 min
May 21, 6:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL43 min
Jun 9, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL40 min
Jun 9, 3:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL47 min
Jun 13, 11:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL37 min
Jun 13, 11:56 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL34 min
Jul 1, 5:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL46 min
Jul 10, 5:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL25 min
Aug 21, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL42 min
Aug 31, 11:28 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL47 min
Nov 1, 12:54 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL51 min
Nov 1, 1:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL41 min
Nov 1, 1:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL26 min
Nov 1, 2:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL60 min
Dec 22, 12:27 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL48 min
Dec 22, 1:07 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningJKL38 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.