Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2017
6 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 27, 20174 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 19, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 5:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Fulton | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bourbon and 65 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt and 43 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allen County3
- Butler County3
- Logan County3
- Ohio County3
- Simpson County3
- Warren County3
- Fulton County3
- Boone County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Adair County2
- Anderson County2
- Barren County2
- Bourbon County2
- Boyle County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Bullitt County2
- Casey County2
- Clark County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edmonson County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Garrard County2
- Grayson County2
- Green County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Hart County2
- Henry County2
80 more counties
- Jefferson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Larue County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Meade County2
- Mercer County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Nelson County2
- Nicholas County2
- Oldham County2
- Russell County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Trimble County2
- Washington County2
- Woodford County2
- Ballard County2
- Caldwell County2
- Calloway County2
- Carlisle County2
- Christian County2
- Crittenden County2
- Daviess County2
- Graves County2
- Henderson County2
- Hickman County2
- Hopkins County2
- Livingston County2
- Lyon County2
- McCracken County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Union County2
- Webster County2
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Boyd County1
- Breathitt County1
- Carter County1
- Clay County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fleming County1
- Floyd County1
- Greenup County1
- Harlan County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Lewis County1
- McCreary County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Owsley County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Rowan County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Wolfe 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.