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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 1997
11 tornado watches in 1997. 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 tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- March6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 19972 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 2:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Graves and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 3:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 22 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 8:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 67 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 3:15 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 6:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 28, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon and 56 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 10:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton | 6 hr |
| Apr 30, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 18 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 5 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 2, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Fleming, Gallatin and 12 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calloway County6
- Graves County6
- Hickman County6
- Marshall County6
- Caldwell County5
- Christian County5
- Lyon County5
- McCracken County5
- Todd County5
- Trigg County5
- Fulton County5
- Allen County4
- Barren County4
- Logan County4
- Simpson County4
- Warren County4
- Ballard County4
- Carlisle County4
- Crittenden County4
- Green County4
- Hopkins County4
- Livingston County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Ohio County4
- Butler County3
- Edmonson County3
- Grayson County3
- Hart County3
- Daviess County3
- Fleming County3
- Hancock County3
- Harrison County3
- Henry County3
- Lewis County3
- McLean County3
- Metcalfe County3
- Monroe County3
- Nelson County3
- Oldham County3
- Owen County3
67 more counties
- Robertson County3
- Trimble County3
- Boone County3
- Campbell County3
- Carroll County3
- Gallatin County3
- Grant County3
- Kenton County3
- Adair County2
- Anderson County2
- Bath County2
- Bourbon County2
- Boyle County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Bullitt County2
- Casey County2
- Clark County2
- Estill County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Garrard County2
- Greenup County2
- Hardin County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Larue County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Meade County2
- Menifee County2
- Mercer County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nicholas County2
- Powell County2
- Rowan County2
- Russell County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Washington County2
- Woodford County2
- Union County2
- Henderson County2
- Webster County2
- Bracken County2
- Mason County2
- Pendleton County2
- Boyd County1
- Carter County1
- Elliott County1
- Bell County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Jackson County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- McCreary County1
- Owsley County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Wolfe County1
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.