Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, April 1998
20 tornado watches in April 1998. 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 20
- Busiest day
- April 16, 19988 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 7, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone | 6 hr |
| Apr 7, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hancock, Henderson | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 57 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 1:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 57 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 13, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 15, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 7 hr |
| Apr 15, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Crittenden, Daviess, Grayson and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 11:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, McCracken | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 68 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey, Clay and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 2:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 45 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calloway | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 47 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 16, 8:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan and 11 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 4:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Allen County7
- Butler County7
- Graves County7
- Hickman County7
- Logan County7
- Simpson County7
- Hancock County7
- Grayson County7
- Calloway County6
- Carlisle County6
- Christian County6
- Edmonson County6
- Livingston County6
- McCracken County6
- Muhlenberg County6
- Todd County6
- Warren County6
- Adair County6
- Boyle County6
- Casey County6
- Garrard County6
- Henderson County6
- Anderson County6
- Hardin County6
- Hart County6
- Larue County6
- Nelson County6
- Pendleton County6
- Shelby County6
- Washington County6
- Breckinridge County6
- Ohio County6
- Ballard County5
- Caldwell County5
- Fulton County5
- Lyon County5
- Marshall County5
- Trigg County5
- Cumberland County5
- Green County5
80 more counties
- Lincoln County5
- Marion County5
- Metcalfe County5
- Monroe County5
- Russell County5
- Taylor County5
- Boone County5
- Barren County5
- Bourbon County5
- Bracken County5
- Bullitt County5
- Carroll County5
- Clark County5
- Fayette County5
- Fleming County5
- Franklin County5
- Gallatin County5
- Grant County5
- Harrison County5
- Henry County5
- Jefferson County5
- Jessamine County5
- Mason County5
- Mercer County5
- Nicholas County5
- Oldham County5
- Owen County5
- Robertson County5
- Scott County5
- Spencer County5
- Trimble County5
- Woodford County5
- Crittenden County5
- Daviess County5
- Hopkins County5
- McLean County5
- Webster County5
- Clinton County4
- Estill County4
- Pulaski County4
- Rockcastle County4
- Wayne County4
- Lewis County4
- Madison County4
- Campbell County4
- Kenton County4
- Meade County4
- Union County4
- Bell County3
- Breathitt County3
- Clay County3
- Floyd County3
- Harlan County3
- Jackson County3
- Knott County3
- Knox County3
- Laurel County3
- Lee County3
- Leslie County3
- Letcher County3
- McCreary County3
- Magoffin County3
- Owsley County3
- Perry County3
- Whitley County3
- Bath County3
- Montgomery County3
- Powell County3
- Rowan County3
- Boyd County3
- Carter County2
- Elliott County2
- Greenup County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Menifee County2
- Morgan County2
- Wolfe County2
- Martin County1
- Pike County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.