Extreme Cold Watches in Kentucky
5 extreme cold 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 extreme cold watches reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 5
- Busiest year
- 20263 extreme cold watches
- Average year
- 3over 2 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 County2
- Boyd County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Carter County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Greenup County2
- Kenton County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Breathitt County1
- Clay County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fleming County1
- Floyd County1
- Harlan County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- McCreary County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Owsley County1
The latest extreme cold watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 25, 9:06 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 15 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:04 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 24, 1:32 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | ILN | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 22 hr |
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.