Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2018
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 31, 20182 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, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 6 hr |
| May 20, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 22, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 7 hr |
| May 31, 11:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bourbon, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Casey and 35 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Carlisle County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Henderson County2
- Union County2
- Webster County2
- Boone County2
- Campbell County2
- Kenton County2
- Ballard County1
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Crittenden County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- Marshall County1
- Trigg County1
- Anderson County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Daviess County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Garrard County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Harrison County1
- Hart County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jessamine County1
27 more counties
- Larue County1
- Lincoln County1
- McLean County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Meade County1
- Mercer County1
- Nelson County1
- Nicholas County1
- Ohio County1
- Oldham County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Taylor County1
- Trimble County1
- Washington County1
- Woodford County1
- Bracken County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Lewis County1
- Mason County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson 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.