Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, March 1997
6 tornado watches in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- March 1, 19972 tornado 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allen County4
- Barren County4
- Caldwell County4
- Calloway County4
- Christian County4
- Graves County4
- Hickman County4
- Logan County4
- Marshall County4
- Simpson County4
- Todd County4
- Trigg County4
- Warren County4
- Green County4
- Lyon County3
- McCracken County3
- Butler County3
- Edmonson County3
- Grayson County3
- Hart County3
- Hopkins County3
- Muhlenberg County3
- Ohio County3
- Metcalfe County3
- Monroe County3
- Nelson County3
- Ballard County2
- Carlisle County2
- Crittenden County2
- Fulton County2
- Livingston County2
- Adair County2
- Anderson County2
- Bath County2
- Bourbon County2
- Boyle County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Bullitt County2
- Casey County2
- Clark County2
67 more counties
- Daviess County2
- Estill County2
- Fayette County2
- Fleming County2
- Franklin County2
- Garrard County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Larue County2
- Lewis County2
- Lincoln County2
- McLean County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Meade County2
- Menifee County2
- Mercer County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nicholas County2
- Oldham County2
- Owen County2
- Powell County2
- Robertson County2
- Rowan County2
- Russell County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Washington County2
- Woodford County2
- Boyd County1
- Carter County1
- Elliott County1
- Greenup County1
- Union County1
- Henderson County1
- Trimble County1
- Webster County1
- Bell County1
- Boone County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Clay County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Jackson County1
- Kenton County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- McCreary County1
- Mason County1
- Owsley County1
- Pendleton County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Wolfe 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.