Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2020
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2020
4 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20202 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 3, 12:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 11 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 6:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Casey, Clay, Clinton, Cumberland and 30 more | 3 hr |
| May 4, 3:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 6 hr |
| May 17, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Henderson, Union | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calloway County2
- Carlisle County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Ballard County1
- Caldwell County1
- Christian County1
- Crittenden County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Bell County1
- Breathitt County1
- Casey County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Estill County1
- Floyd County1
- Garrard County1
- Harlan County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCreary County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin 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.