Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 1997
3 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 19, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 10:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 66 more | 5 hr |
| May 19, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 61 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boyd County3
- Carter County3
- Elliott County3
- Adair County2
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Barren County2
- Bath County2
- Bourbon County2
- Boyle County2
- Bullitt County2
- Butler County2
- Casey County2
- Clark County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edmonson County2
- Estill County2
- Fayette County2
- Fleming County2
- Franklin County2
- Garrard County2
- Grayson County2
- Green County2
- Greenup County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Hart County2
- Henry County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Larue County2
- Lee County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Menifee County2
- Mercer County2
37 more counties
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Nelson County2
- Nicholas County2
- Oldham County2
- Powell County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Rowan County2
- Russell County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Simpson County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Todd County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Wayne County2
- Wolfe County2
- Woodford County2
- Bracken County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Lewis County1
- Mason County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Christian County1
- Meade County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Ohio 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.