Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2000
10 tornado watches in May 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 May 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 23, 20004 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Calloway County5
- Hopkins County5
- Trigg County5
- Ballard County4
- Caldwell County4
- Carlisle County4
- Crittenden County4
- Graves County4
- Hickman County4
- Livingston County4
- Lyon County4
- McCracken County4
- Marshall County4
- Webster County4
- Adair County4
- Allen County4
- Barren County4
- Cumberland County4
- Edmonson County4
- Grayson County4
- Hart County4
- Metcalfe County4
- Monroe County4
- Simpson County4
- Warren County4
- Butler County4
- Christian County4
- Logan County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Ohio County4
- Todd County4
- Clinton County4
- Casey County3
- Green County3
- Taylor County3
- McLean County3
- Union County3
- Russell County3
- Fulton County2
- Boyle County2
52 more counties
- Larue County2
- Marion County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Daviess County2
- Hancock County2
- Henderson County2
- Meade County2
- Bell County2
- Knox County2
- Lincoln County2
- McCreary County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Wayne County2
- Whitley County2
- Boone County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Kenton County1
- Pendleton County1
- Breathitt County1
- Clay County1
- Estill County1
- Floyd County1
- Garrard County1
- Harlan County1
- Jackson County1
- Knott County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Owsley County1
- Perry County1
- Boyd County1
- Anderson County1
- Bullitt County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Hardin County1
- Jefferson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Mercer County1
- Nelson County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Washington 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. Rebuilt daily.