Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, May 2021
3 severe thunderstorm watches in May 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 May 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20212 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 4, 2:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 6:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Clinton, Cumberland and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 1:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 10 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County2
- Caldwell County2
- Calloway County2
- Carlisle County2
- Crittenden County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Livingston County2
- Lyon County2
- McCracken County2
- Marshall County2
- Trigg County2
- Webster County2
- Christian County1
- Hopkins County1
- McLean County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Todd County1
- Adair County1
- Allen County1
- Barren County1
- Butler County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edmonson County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hart County1
- Logan County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Ohio County1
- Russell County1
- Simpson County1
- Warren County1
- Henderson County1
- Union 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. Rebuilt daily.