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Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2021

13 severe thunderstorm watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Watches
13
Busiest month
June5 severe thunderstorm watches
Busiest day
May 4, 20212 severe thunderstorm watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 28, 8:11 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCClinton, Cumberland, Monroe3 hr
Apr 28, 1:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 13 more7 hr
May 4, 2:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 13 more6 hr
May 4, 6:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland and 11 more5 hr
May 6, 1:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 10 more5 hr
Jun 13, 12:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoyd, Greenup7 hr
Jun 13, 4:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCCarter, Elliott, Floyd, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin and 1 more5 hr
Jun 18, 9:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt and 32 more6 hr
Jun 21, 12:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence, Lewis7 hr
Jun 21, 1:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 65 more5 hr
Jul 29, 3:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more7 hr
Aug 12, 8:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBallard, Carlisle, Crittenden, Henderson, Livingston, McCracken and 2 more4 hr
Oct 15, 1:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBallard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more9 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

72 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.