Alert archive / Kentucky / 1999
Weather alerts in Kentucky, May 1999
57 weather alerts in May 1999, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 57
- Warnings
- 52
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 17, 199919 alerts
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 4, 10:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 20 min |
| May 5, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 5:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, McCracken | 57 min |
| May 5, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 27 min |
| May 5, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Trigg | 49 min |
| May 5, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Webster | 28 min |
| May 5, 7:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean | 43 min |
| May 5, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 51 min |
| May 5, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 28 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 28 min |
| May 5, 7:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 33 min |
| May 5, 8:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 45 min |
| May 5, 8:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 31 min |
| May 5, 11:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson | 32 min |
| May 5, 11:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | PAH | Todd | 107 min |
| May 5, 11:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Monroe | 35 min |
| May 6, 12:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 47 min |
| May 6, 12:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan | 35 min |
| May 6, 12:25 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 45 min |
| May 6, 12:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley | 41 min |
| May 6, 3:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Laurel, McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox | 3 hr |
| May 6, 3:21 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 3 hr |
| May 7, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Harlan | 46 min |
| May 7, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Letcher, Perry | 37 min |
| May 7, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 23 min |
| May 7, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 38 min |
| May 13, 7:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wayne | 60 min |
| May 13, 10:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Madison | 26 min |
| May 17, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard | 6 hr |
| May 17, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 57 min |
| May 17, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hickman | 57 min |
| May 17, 4:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | McCracken | 58 min |
| May 17, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Graves | 50 min |
| May 17, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Livingston | 47 min |
| May 17, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Marshall | 47 min |
| May 17, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Lyon | 53 min |
| May 17, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 47 min |
| May 17, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 61 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Hopkins, Webster | 64 min |
| May 17, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean | 58 min |
| May 17, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 64 min |
| May 17, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Henderson | 16 min |
| May 17, 6:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Hopkins, Webster | 24 min |
| May 17, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 30 min |
| May 17, 7:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 49 min |
| May 17, 7:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Butler, Ohio | 33 min |
| May 17, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Trimble | 41 min |
| May 17, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham | 41 min |
| May 17, 8:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Oldham, Trimble | 31 min |
| May 18, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Laurel | 60 min |
| May 18, 2:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Wolfe | 49 min |
| May 18, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Morgan | 62 min |
| May 18, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knott | 64 min |
| May 18, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 115 min |
| May 18, 7:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Pike | 3 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 | 44 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 2 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Daviess County7
- Hickman County5
- Ballard County5
- Henderson County5
- Hopkins County5
- McLean County5
- Webster County5
- Breckinridge County5
- Ohio County5
- Carlisle County4
- McCracken County4
- Trigg County4
- Hancock County4
- Meade County4
- Wayne County4
- Caldwell County3
- Calloway County3
- Crittenden County3
- Graves County3
- Livingston County3
- Lyon County3
- Marshall County3
- Union County3
- Christian County3
- Allen County3
- Butler County3
- Logan County3
- Monroe County3
- Simpson County3
- Todd County3
- Pulaski County3
- Knott County3
- Oldham County3
- Trimble County3
- Fulton County2
- Anderson County2
- Barren County2
- Bullitt County2
- Edmonson County2
- Grayson County2
57 more counties
- Green County2
- Hardin County2
- Hart County2
- Larue County2
- Marion County2
- Mercer County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Nelson County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Woodford County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- McCreary County2
- Whitley County2
- Laurel County2
- Madison County2
- Pike County2
- Bell County1
- Knox County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Harlan County1
- Letcher County1
- Perry County1
- Adair County1
- Boone County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Garrard County1
- Grant County1
- Harrison County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Kenton County1
- Lincoln County1
- Mason County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- Russell County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Wolfe County1
- Morgan 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. Rebuilt daily.