Alert archive / Kentucky / 2001
Weather alerts in Kentucky, May 2001
46 weather alerts in May 2001, 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 46
- Warnings
- 39
- Watches
- 7
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 21, 200116 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 6, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 42 min |
| May 6, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay, Knox | 47 min |
| May 6, 6:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | JKL | Harlan | 54 min |
| May 6, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson, Martin | 50 min |
| May 7, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 32 min |
| May 7, 4:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Meade | 26 min |
| May 7, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Jefferson | 50 min |
| May 11, 2:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Casey | 32 min |
| May 11, 3:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 44 min |
| May 11, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Todd | 34 min |
| May 11, 6:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Simpson | 27 min |
| May 15, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd and 59 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 1:16 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd, Greenup | 3 hr |
| May 17, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 4 hr |
| May 17, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Scott | 34 min |
| May 17, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Henry | 30 min |
| May 17, 2:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Nelson | 26 min |
| May 17, 2:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Fleming | 21 min |
| May 17, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Mercer | 25 min |
| May 18, 6:49 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Carter | 3 hr |
| May 18, 7:12 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd | 3 hr |
| May 18, 3:44 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Boone | 106 min |
| May 18, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian and 22 more | 5 hr |
| May 18, 9:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Boyd, Greenup | 4 hr |
| May 18, 10:28 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 4 hr |
| May 19, 3:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 40 min |
| May 19, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Owsley | 43 min |
| May 19, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 42 min |
| May 19, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Floyd | 49 min |
| May 20, 10:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton | 6 hr |
| May 21, 4:51 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Trigg | 24 min |
| May 21, 5:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian | 25 min |
| May 21, 5:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Logan | 33 min |
| May 21, 6:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Warren | 28 min |
| May 21, 8:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Garrard, Madison | 30 min |
| May 21, 8:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clark | 30 min |
| May 21, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Clay | 46 min |
| May 21, 4:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Lewis | 45 min |
| May 21, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Owsley | 42 min |
| May 21, 4:50 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ILN | Lewis | 115 min |
| May 21, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Breathitt | 45 min |
| May 21, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Johnson | 38 min |
| May 21, 6:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JKL | Pike | 48 min |
| May 21, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 5 hr |
| May 21, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Floyd, Harlan, Knott, Letcher, Martin, Pike | 5 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 | 6 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 8 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Greenup County5
- Boyd County5
- Boone County4
- Lewis County4
- Pike County4
- Knox County3
- Clay County3
- Harlan County3
- Johnson County3
- Martin County3
- Campbell County3
- Kenton County3
- Breathitt County3
- Carter County3
- Floyd County3
- Owsley County3
- Whitley County2
- Bullitt County2
- Jefferson County2
- Pulaski County2
- Todd County2
- Bracken County2
- Carroll County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Harrison County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Clark County2
- Fleming County2
- Garrard County2
- Henry County2
- Knott County2
- Lawrence County2
- Letcher County2
- Madison County2
- Mercer County2
- Scott County2
59 more counties
- Christian County2
- Fulton County2
- Logan County2
- Trigg County2
- Warren County2
- Meade County1
- Casey County1
- Simpson County1
- Anderson County1
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Lincoln County1
- Magoffin County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Perry County1
- Powell County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Rowan County1
- Shelby County1
- Trimble County1
- Wolfe County1
- Woodford County1
- Nelson County1
- Ballard County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Butler County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carlisle County1
- Crittenden County1
- Daviess County1
- Graves County1
- Grayson County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Ohio County1
- Union County1
- Webster 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.