Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2000
22 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 22
- Busiest month
- May10 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- November 9, 20005 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 8:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 12:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 3, 2:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Campbell and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 3, 5:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 33 more | 5 hr |
| Jan 3, 8:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 44 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 7, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge and 47 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Boyle and 47 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 5 hr |
| May 23, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Cumberland and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 22 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Clinton, Estill, Floyd and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 7:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd | 5 hr |
| May 23, 8:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 48 more | 6 hr |
| May 23, 8:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 1 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Bell, Butler and 33 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 12:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 2:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Carroll, Trimble | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 3:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken and 49 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 1 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 5:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup, Harlan and 7 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Grayson County10
- Hopkins County10
- Butler County9
- Edmonson County9
- Logan County9
- Muhlenberg County9
- Ohio County9
- Simpson County9
- Todd County9
- Warren County9
- Calloway County8
- McLean County8
- Shelby County8
- Trigg County8
- Allen County8
- Barren County8
- Hart County8
- Metcalfe County8
- Crittenden County7
- Livingston County7
- Lyon County7
- Marshall County7
- Breckinridge County7
- Bullitt County7
- Caldwell County7
- Christian County7
- Daviess County7
- Hancock County7
- Hardin County7
- Meade County7
- Anderson County7
- Franklin County7
- Grant County7
- Mercer County7
- Nelson County7
- Scott County7
- Spencer County7
- Washington County7
- Woodford County7
- Green County7
80 more counties
- Larue County7
- Taylor County7
- Adair County7
- Monroe County7
- Ballard County6
- Carlisle County6
- Graves County6
- Hickman County6
- McCracken County6
- Union County6
- Jefferson County6
- Webster County6
- Bracken County6
- Carroll County6
- Pendleton County6
- Marion County6
- Casey County6
- Cumberland County6
- Henderson County5
- Henry County5
- Boone County5
- Campbell County5
- Fayette County5
- Gallatin County5
- Jessamine County5
- Kenton County5
- Owen County5
- Boyle County5
- Clinton County5
- Oldham County4
- Bourbon County4
- Clark County4
- Harrison County4
- Nicholas County4
- Robertson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Fulton County3
- Bath County3
- Estill County3
- Fleming County3
- Lewis County3
- Madison County3
- Mason County3
- Montgomery County3
- Rowan County3
- Garrard County3
- Trimble County3
- Bell County3
- Harlan County3
- Knott County3
- Knox County3
- McCreary County3
- Pulaski County3
- Rockcastle County3
- Wayne County3
- Whitley County3
- Russell County3
- Menifee County2
- Powell County2
- Wolfe County2
- Greenup County2
- Breathitt County2
- Clay County2
- Floyd County2
- Jackson County2
- Laurel County2
- Lee County2
- Leslie County2
- Letcher County2
- Owsley County2
- Perry County2
- Boyd County2
- Elliott County2
- Magoffin County2
- Morgan County1
- Carter County1
- Johnson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Martin County1
- Pike County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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. Rebuilt daily.