High Wind Watches in Kentucky
18 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 18
- Busiest year
- 200910 high wind watches
- Average year
- 2over 8 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 County7
- Bracken County7
- Campbell County7
- Carroll County7
- Gallatin County7
- Grant County7
- Kenton County7
- Lewis County7
- Mason County7
- Owen County7
- Pendleton County7
- Robertson County7
- Harlan County6
- Letcher County6
- Bell County5
- Clay County4
- Floyd County4
- Knott County4
- Knox County4
- Leslie County4
- Perry County4
- Pike County4
- Whitley County4
- Laurel County3
- McCreary County3
- Pulaski County3
- Wayne County3
- Anderson County2
- Bath County2
- Bourbon County2
- Boyd County2
- Boyle County2
- Breathitt County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Bullitt County2
- Carter County2
- Casey County2
- Clark County2
- Elliott County2
- Estill County2
80 more counties
- Fayette County2
- Fleming County2
- Franklin County2
- Garrard County2
- Greenup County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Johnson County2
- Larue County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lee County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Magoffin County2
- Marion County2
- Martin County2
- Meade County2
- Menifee County2
- Mercer County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Nelson County2
- Nicholas County2
- Oldham County2
- Owsley County2
- Powell County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Rowan County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Trimble County2
- Washington County2
- Wolfe County2
- Woodford County2
- Adair County1
- Allen County1
- Ballard County1
- Barren County1
- Butler County1
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Christian County1
- Clinton County1
- Crittenden County1
- Cumberland County1
- Daviess County1
- Edmonson County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hart County1
- Henderson County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Ohio County1
- Russell County1
- Simpson County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Webster 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. Rebuilt daily.