Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 1998
5 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 24, 19982 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 11:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 6 hr |
| May 22, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Union | 6 hr |
| May 23, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Casey and 25 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Boyle, Bracken, Carter and 29 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Greenup, Johnson, Lawrence, Martin | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County2
- Washington County2
- Boyd County2
- Greenup County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Martin County2
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Hickman County1
- Crittenden County1
- Adair County1
- Anderson County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Carroll County1
- Casey County1
- Daviess County1
- Edmonson County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Hart County1
- Henderson County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Larue County1
- McLean County1
- Marion County1
- Meade County1
- Nelson County1
- Ohio County1
- Oldham County1
- Russell County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Taylor County1
31 more counties
- Trimble County1
- Webster County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Bracken County1
- Carter County1
- Clark County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Garrard County1
- Harrison County1
- Jessamine County1
- Lee County1
- Lewis County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Mason County1
- Menifee County1
- Mercer County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Powell County1
- Robertson County1
- Rowan County1
- Scott County1
- Wolfe County1
- Woodford 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.