Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2016
9 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- May 10, 20163 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, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 67 more | 6 hr |
| May 1, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Estill and 20 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson and 10 more | 8 hr |
| May 7, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 1:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Boone and 75 more | 9 hr |
| May 10, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Union, Webster | 12 hr |
| May 11, 7:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 53 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Daviess County5
- McLean County5
- Webster County5
- Adair County4
- Anderson County4
- Barren County4
- Boyle County4
- Breckinridge County4
- Bullitt County4
- Butler County4
- Casey County4
- Clinton County4
- Cumberland County4
- Edmonson County4
- Grayson County4
- Green County4
- Hancock County4
- Hardin County4
- Hart County4
- Henderson County4
- Hopkins County4
- Jefferson County4
- Larue County4
- Lincoln County4
- Marion County4
- Meade County4
- Mercer County4
- Metcalfe County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Nelson County4
- Ohio County4
- Oldham County4
- Russell County4
- Shelby County4
- Spencer County4
- Taylor County4
- Warren County4
- Washington County4
- Allen County3
- Bourbon County3
80 more counties
- Caldwell County3
- Clark County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Garrard County3
- Harrison County3
- Henry County3
- Jessamine County3
- Logan County3
- Madison County3
- Monroe County3
- Nicholas County3
- Scott County3
- Simpson County3
- Trimble County3
- Woodford County3
- Breathitt County3
- Floyd County3
- Johnson County3
- Knott County3
- Magoffin County3
- Martin County3
- Owsley County3
- Perry County3
- Pike County3
- Rockcastle County3
- Union County3
- Livingston County3
- Boone County2
- Bracken County2
- Calloway County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Christian County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Lewis County2
- Lyon County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Bath County2
- Boyd County2
- Carter County2
- Elliott County2
- Estill County2
- Fleming County2
- Greenup County2
- Jackson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lee County2
- Menifee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Powell County2
- Rowan County2
- Wolfe County2
- Bell County2
- Clay County2
- Harlan County2
- Knox County2
- Leslie County2
- Letcher County2
- Whitley County2
- McCreary County2
- Pulaski County2
- Wayne County2
- Ballard County2
- Carlisle County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- McCracken County2
- Crittenden County2
- Marshall County1
- Laurel 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.