Alert archive / Kentucky / Extreme Cold Watches
Extreme Cold Watches in Kentucky, 2026
3 extreme cold watches in 2026. 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 in 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Watches
- 3
- Busiest month
- January3 extreme cold watches
- Busiest day
- January 24, 20262 extreme cold watches
Over time
By month
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 24, 1:32 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | ILN | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 22 hr |
| Jan 24, 2:04 PM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | JKL | Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 25, 9:06 AM EST | Extreme Cold Watch | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 15 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Kenton County1
- Lewis County1
- Mason County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- 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
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.