Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2003
17 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 17
- Busiest day
- May 15, 20034 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, 10:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 3:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 53 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Hancock, Henderson | 4 hr |
| May 7, 3:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clark, Clay, Elliott, Estill and 27 more | 5 hr |
| May 8, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, McLean, Union, Webster | 4 hr |
| May 9, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge and 41 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin | 5 hr |
| May 9, 7:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 11, 6:05 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey and 38 more | 4 hr |
| May 11, 6:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Harlan | 5 hr |
| May 14, 9:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Union | 4 hr |
| May 15, 11:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 53 more | 6 hr |
| May 15, 1:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey and 41 more | 5 hr |
| May 15, 6:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Christian, Logan, Monroe, Simpson, Todd and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 1 more | 4 hr |
| May 31, 12:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 10 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bell County6
- Harlan County6
- Hancock County5
- Boyle County5
- Clark County5
- Estill County5
- Jackson County5
- Laurel County5
- Lee County5
- McCreary County5
- Menifee County5
- Montgomery County5
- Powell County5
- Pulaski County5
- Rockcastle County5
- Wayne County5
- Wolfe County5
- Clay County5
- Knox County5
- Leslie County5
- Letcher County5
- Martin County5
- Whitley County5
- Union County4
- Daviess County4
- Henderson County4
- Oldham County4
- Bath County4
- Bourbon County4
- Bracken County4
- Campbell County4
- Casey County4
- Clinton County4
- Fayette County4
- Garrard County4
- Grant County4
- Harrison County4
- Jessamine County4
- Kenton County4
- Lincoln County4
80 more counties
- Madison County4
- Mason County4
- Nicholas County4
- Owen County4
- Pendleton County4
- Robertson County4
- Rowan County4
- Russell County4
- Breathitt County4
- Elliott County4
- Floyd County4
- Johnson County4
- Knott County4
- Lawrence County4
- Magoffin County4
- Morgan County4
- Owsley County4
- Perry County4
- Crittenden County3
- Livingston County3
- Breckinridge County3
- Bullitt County3
- Christian County3
- Hardin County3
- Jefferson County3
- Logan County3
- McLean County3
- Meade County3
- Todd County3
- Webster County3
- Anderson County3
- Cumberland County3
- Fleming County3
- Franklin County3
- Greenup County3
- Hart County3
- Larue County3
- Lewis County3
- Marion County3
- Mercer County3
- Monroe County3
- Nelson County3
- Scott County3
- Shelby County3
- Spencer County3
- Washington County3
- Woodford County3
- Pike County3
- Boone County3
- Carroll County3
- Gallatin County3
- Henry County3
- Trimble County3
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Lyon County2
- McCracken County2
- Marshall County2
- Butler County2
- Caldwell County2
- Edmonson County2
- Grayson County2
- Hopkins County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Ohio County2
- Simpson County2
- Trigg County2
- Warren County2
- Adair County2
- Allen County2
- Barren County2
- Carter County2
- Green County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Taylor County2
- Ballard County1
- Carlisle County1
- Fulton County1
- Calloway County1
- Boyd 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.