Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 1999
2 tornado watches in May 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- May 5, 19992 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 5, 4:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 28 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Daviess County2
- Hopkins County2
- McLean County2
- Trigg County2
- Ballard County1
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Crittenden County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Henderson County1
- Hickman County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- Marshall County1
- Union County1
- Webster County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Barren County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Butler County1
- Christian County1
- Edmonson County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Hart County1
- Larue County1
- Logan County1
- Marion County1
- Meade County1
- Mercer County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Muhlenberg 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.