Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, April 2002
9 tornado watches in April 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 April 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 28, 20026 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County4
- Carlisle County4
- Hickman County4
- McCracken County4
- Christian County4
- Trigg County4
- Fulton County3
- Butler County3
- Caldwell County3
- Calloway County3
- Crittenden County3
- Graves County3
- Grayson County3
- Hardin County3
- Henderson County3
- Hopkins County3
- Livingston County3
- Logan County3
- Lyon County3
- Marshall County3
- Muhlenberg County3
- Ohio County3
- Todd County3
- Union County3
- Webster County3
- Marion County3
- Mercer County3
- Breckinridge County2
- Daviess County2
- Hancock County2
- Jefferson County2
- McLean County2
- Edmonson County2
- Hart County2
- Larue County2
- Nelson County2
- Simpson County2
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Adair County2
77 more counties
- Allen County2
- Barren County2
- Boyle County2
- Breathitt County2
- Casey County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Estill County2
- Garrard County2
- Green County2
- Jackson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Johnson County2
- Laurel County2
- Lee County2
- Lincoln County2
- McCreary County2
- Madison County2
- Magoffin County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Owsley County2
- Powell County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Russell County2
- Taylor County2
- Wayne County2
- Wolfe County2
- Greenup County2
- Lewis County2
- Owen County2
- Robertson County2
- Martin County2
- Meade County1
- Oldham County1
- Trimble County1
- Boone County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Kenton County1
- Mason County1
- Pendleton County1
- Anderson County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyd County1
- Bullitt County1
- Carter County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Elliott County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Floyd County1
- Franklin County1
- Harrison County1
- Henry County1
- Knox County1
- Lawrence County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Perry County1
- Rowan County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Whitley County1
- Woodford County1
- Harlan County1
- Letcher County1
- Pike 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.