Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Kentucky, May 2021
18 severe thunderstorm warnings in May 2021. 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 severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 4, 202113 severe thunderstorm warnings
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 3, 9:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 30 min |
| May 4, 1:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Edmonson, Warren | 33 min |
| May 4, 1:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Monroe | 34 min |
| May 4, 2:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Daviess | 31 min |
| May 4, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 43 min |
| May 4, 3:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 55 min |
| May 4, 4:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Barren, Edmonson, Hart | 32 min |
| May 4, 4:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Clinton, Cumberland | 23 min |
| May 4, 4:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 40 min |
| May 4, 4:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 33 min |
| May 4, 5:08 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway, Christian, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 52 min |
| May 4, 5:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon and 1 more | 45 min |
| May 4, 6:06 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg, Todd | 39 min |
| May 4, 7:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Allen, Simpson | 20 min |
| May 4, 8:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Washington | 24 min |
| May 4, 9:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LMK | Larue, Marion, Nelson | 27 min |
| May 6, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Calloway | 38 min |
| May 6, 4:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 52 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Christian County4
- Cumberland County3
- Monroe County3
- Fulton County3
- Hickman County3
- Edmonson County2
- Allen County2
- Carlisle County2
- Graves County2
- Calloway County2
- Lyon County2
- Hopkins County2
- Todd County2
- Warren County1
- Daviess County1
- Barren County1
- Hart County1
- Clinton County1
- Marshall County1
- Trigg County1
- Caldwell County1
- Crittenden County1
- Livingston County1
- Webster County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Simpson County1
- Washington County1
- Larue County1
- Marion County1
- Nelson 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.