Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, August 2020
4 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2020. 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 August 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- August 1, 20201 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 7 hr |
| Aug 10, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Carlisle and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 10, 8:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 25, 3:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boyd County2
- Carter County2
- Greenup County2
- Lawrence County2
- Ballard County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Butler County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carlisle County1
- Crittenden County1
- Daviess County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Grayson County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Meade County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Ohio County1
- Oldham County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Trimble County1
- Union County1
- Webster County1
- Boone County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
4 more counties
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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.