Alert archive / Kentucky / Severe Thunderstorm Watches
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Kentucky, 2025
24 severe thunderstorm watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 24
- Busiest month
- April8 severe thunderstorm watches
- Busiest day
- April 29, 20254 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 7:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie, Letcher and 4 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 19, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 31 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 12:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 45 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 10, 3:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 14, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Boyd and 64 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 29, 12:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 29, 2:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson and 5 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 29, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Apr 29, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 65 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 1:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle, Bracken and 39 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 10:58 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 22 more | 8 hr |
| May 2, 1:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle and 72 more | 7 hr |
| May 8, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell and 35 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 15, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 4 hr |
| May 16, 3:28 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bourbon and 65 more | 9 hr |
| May 16, 11:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 6, 2:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Floyd, Jackson and 19 more | 3 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 56 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 5, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Breathitt, Casey and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Nov 18, 5:28 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County11
- Clay County10
- Leslie County10
- McCreary County10
- Perry County10
- Wayne County10
- Breathitt County10
- Estill County10
- Jackson County10
- Laurel County10
- Owsley County10
- Powell County10
- Pulaski County10
- Rockcastle County10
- Wolfe County10
- Bell County9
- Knox County9
- Letcher County9
- Whitley County9
- Knott County9
- Menifee County9
- Morgan County9
- Adair County9
- Barren County9
- Green County9
- Metcalfe County9
- Russell County9
- Harlan County8
- Elliott County8
- Floyd County8
- Johnson County8
- Magoffin County8
- Montgomery County8
- Allen County8
- Casey County8
- Clinton County8
- Cumberland County8
- Garrard County8
- Hart County8
- Madison County8
80 more counties
- Monroe County8
- Simpson County8
- Taylor County8
- Campbell County7
- Grant County7
- Kenton County7
- Owen County7
- Pendleton County7
- Bath County7
- Boyd County7
- Carter County7
- Pike County7
- Rowan County7
- Boyle County7
- Edmonson County7
- Jessamine County7
- Larue County7
- Lincoln County7
- Marion County7
- Mercer County7
- Warren County7
- Washington County7
- Gallatin County6
- Fleming County6
- Greenup County6
- Lawrence County6
- Martin County6
- Logan County6
- Nelson County6
- Anderson County6
- Bourbon County6
- Bracken County6
- Clark County6
- Fayette County6
- Franklin County6
- Harrison County6
- Lewis County6
- Mason County6
- Nicholas County6
- Robertson County6
- Scott County6
- Woodford County6
- Boone County5
- Carroll County5
- Butler County5
- Grayson County5
- Ohio County5
- Ballard County5
- Calloway County5
- Carlisle County5
- Daviess County5
- Fulton County5
- Graves County5
- Hickman County5
- McCracken County5
- Marshall County5
- Henry County5
- Shelby County5
- Spencer County5
- Caldwell County4
- Christian County4
- Crittenden County4
- Henderson County4
- Hopkins County4
- Livingston County4
- Lyon County4
- McLean County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Todd County4
- Trigg County4
- Union County4
- Webster County4
- Hardin County3
- Breckinridge County3
- Hancock County3
- Meade County3
- Bullitt County2
- Jefferson County2
- Oldham County2
- Trimble County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.