Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, August 1997
3 severe thunderstorm watches in August 1997. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- August 17, 19972 severe thunderstorm watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 17, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Estill, Floyd and 12 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 17, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Campbell and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 19, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton and 11 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Estill County2
- Powell County2
- Rowan County2
- Boyd County1
- Breathitt County1
- Carter County1
- Elliott County1
- Floyd County1
- Greenup County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Morgan County1
- Pike County1
- Wolfe County1
- Anderson County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Clark County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Franklin County1
- Garrard County1
- Grant County1
- Harrison County1
- Jessamine County1
- Kenton County1
- Larue County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Mercer County1
27 more counties
- Montgomery County1
- Nelson County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- Scott County1
- Spencer County1
- Washington County1
- Woodford County1
- Butler County1
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Christian County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Hickman County1
- Logan County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Simpson County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Warren 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.