Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2002
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20023 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Daviess, Hancock, Henderson | 5 hr |
| May 2, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 5 hr |
| May 2, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 38 more | 5 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 17 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 4:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden | 5 hr |
| May 7, 4:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Casey and 26 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 2:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 12, 7:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Union | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton | 4 hr |
| May 13, 5:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Bell, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 13 more | 5 hr |
| May 25, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell and 30 more | 5 hr |
| May 31, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll and 20 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Hancock County6
- Breckinridge County5
- Bullitt County5
- Jefferson County5
- Meade County5
- Oldham County5
- Shelby County5
- Spencer County5
- Daviess County4
- Anderson County4
- Hardin County4
- Henry County4
- Larue County4
- Marion County4
- Mercer County4
- Nelson County4
- Ohio County4
- Union County4
- Washington County4
- Franklin County4
- Ballard County3
- Carlisle County3
- Fulton County3
- Graves County3
- Hickman County3
- Livingston County3
- McCracken County3
- Marshall County3
- Henderson County3
- Boone County3
- Campbell County3
- Kenton County3
- Boyle County3
- Casey County3
- Crittenden County3
- Grayson County3
- McLean County3
- Taylor County3
- Allen County3
- Metcalfe County3
55 more counties
- Monroe County3
- Scott County3
- Woodford County3
- Carroll County3
- Gallatin County3
- Owen County3
- Trimble County3
- Calloway County2
- Butler County2
- Christian County2
- Edmonson County2
- Green County2
- Hart County2
- Lyon County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Trigg County2
- Webster County2
- Barren County2
- Bell County2
- Clay County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Harlan County2
- Knox County2
- Laurel County2
- Leslie County2
- Letcher County2
- Logan County2
- McCreary County2
- Perry County2
- Pulaski County2
- Russell County2
- Simpson County2
- Todd County2
- Wayne County2
- Whitley County2
- Adair County2
- Fayette County2
- Nicholas County2
- Bracken County2
- Grant County2
- Harrison County2
- Mason County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Caldwell County1
- Hopkins County1
- Knott County1
- Bourbon County1
- Clark County1
- Fleming County1
- Garrard County1
- Jessamine County1
- Warren County1
- Lewis 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.