Excessive Heat Watches in Kentucky
27 excessive heat watches since 1986. 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 excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 27
- Busiest year
- 20116 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 3over 10 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County8
- Bracken County8
- Campbell County8
- Carroll County8
- Gallatin County8
- Grant County8
- Kenton County8
- Lewis County8
- Mason County8
- Owen County8
- Pendleton County8
- Robertson County8
- Ballard County7
- Caldwell County7
- Calloway County7
- Carlisle County7
- Christian County7
- Crittenden County7
- Fulton County7
- Graves County7
- Hickman County7
- Hopkins County7
- Livingston County7
- Lyon County7
- McCracken County7
- Marshall County7
- Todd County7
- Trigg County7
- Daviess County6
- Henderson County6
- McLean County6
- Muhlenberg County6
- Union County6
- Webster County6
- Boyd County6
- Carter County6
- Greenup County6
- Lawrence County6
- Breckinridge County4
- Butler County4
63 more counties
- Edmonson County4
- Grayson County4
- Hancock County4
- Hardin County4
- Logan County4
- Meade County4
- Ohio County4
- Simpson County4
- Warren County4
- Bullitt County3
- Jefferson County3
- Oldham County3
- Trimble County3
- Allen County2
- Barren County2
- Hart County2
- Henry County2
- Larue County2
- Nelson County2
- Shelby County2
- Spencer County2
- Adair County1
- Anderson County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Breathitt County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Franklin County1
- Garrard County1
- Green County1
- Harrison County1
- Jessamine County1
- Johnson County1
- Lee County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Marion County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Mercer County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owsley County1
- Powell County1
- Rowan County1
- Russell County1
- Scott County1
- Taylor County1
- Washington County1
- Wolfe County1
- Woodford County1
Nearby
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.