Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2002
28 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 28
- Busiest month
- April9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20026 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 23, 10:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Marshall and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 29, 12:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 58 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 29, 7:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 54 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 21, 3:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman, McCracken | 4 hr |
| Apr 24, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian, Crittenden and 24 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 27, 11:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 3:00 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 32 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 6:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Breathitt, Casey and 26 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 28, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 76 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 28, 1:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harlan, Letcher, Martin, Pike | 4 hr |
| May 1, 3:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins and 5 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 4:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd and 72 more | 5 hr |
| May 1, 9:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle, Breathitt and 45 more | 4 hr |
| May 1, 11:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Union | 6 hr |
| May 2, 9:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd and 63 more | 4 hr |
| May 9, 11:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 28 more | 5 hr |
| Sep 20, 12:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 7:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 12:00 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 21 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 1:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Bullitt and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 3:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge and 44 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 4:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 10, 5:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 35 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 10:45 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Floyd, Harlan, Johnson, Knott and 8 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Trigg County11
- Union County11
- Calloway County10
- Carlisle County10
- Hickman County10
- Marshall County10
- Ballard County10
- Butler County10
- Crittenden County10
- Green County10
- Hardin County10
- Webster County10
- Laurel County10
- Marion County10
- Mercer County10
- Fulton County9
- Graves County9
- Bullitt County9
- Caldwell County9
- Christian County9
- Edmonson County9
- Grayson County9
- Hart County9
- Henderson County9
- Hopkins County9
- Jefferson County9
- Lyon County9
- McCracken County9
- McLean County9
- Muhlenberg County9
- Ohio County9
- Boyle County9
- Casey County9
- Estill County9
- Jackson County9
- Jessamine County9
- Lee County9
- Owsley County9
- Powell County9
- Pulaski County9
80 more counties
- Taylor County9
- Washington County9
- Wolfe County9
- Allen County8
- Breckinridge County8
- Daviess County8
- Hancock County8
- Larue County8
- Livingston County8
- Logan County8
- Metcalfe County8
- Monroe County8
- Simpson County8
- Todd County8
- Warren County8
- Adair County8
- Anderson County8
- Bath County8
- Clinton County8
- Fayette County8
- Fleming County8
- Franklin County8
- Garrard County8
- McCreary County8
- Madison County8
- Menifee County8
- Morgan County8
- Nelson County8
- Rockcastle County8
- Russell County8
- Scott County8
- Woodford County8
- Breathitt County8
- Johnson County8
- Magoffin County8
- Martin County8
- Barren County7
- Bourbon County7
- Carter County7
- Clark County7
- Clay County7
- Cumberland County7
- Elliott County7
- Greenup County7
- Harrison County7
- Lewis County7
- Lincoln County7
- Montgomery County7
- Nicholas County7
- Owen County7
- Rowan County7
- Spencer County7
- Wayne County7
- Floyd County7
- Perry County7
- Letcher County7
- Meade County6
- Boyd County6
- Henry County6
- Robertson County6
- Shelby County6
- Whitley County6
- Oldham County6
- Trimble County6
- Knox County6
- Lawrence County6
- Harlan County6
- Pike County6
- Knott County6
- Leslie County6
- Bell County5
- Bracken County4
- Grant County4
- Mason County4
- Pendleton County4
- Boone County3
- Campbell County3
- Carroll County3
- Gallatin County3
- Kenton County3
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.