Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2002
6 tornado watches in May 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 May 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20023 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bath County4
- Breathitt County4
- Clay County4
- Estill County4
- Floyd County4
- Jackson County4
- Johnson County4
- Knott County4
- Laurel County4
- Lee County4
- Leslie County4
- Letcher County4
- Magoffin County4
- Martin County4
- Menifee County4
- Morgan County4
- Owsley County4
- Perry County4
- Powell County4
- Wolfe County4
- Anderson County3
- Bourbon County3
- Boyd County3
- Boyle County3
- Carter County3
- Casey County3
- Clark County3
- Elliott County3
- Fayette County3
- Fleming County3
- Franklin County3
- Garrard County3
- Green County3
- Greenup County3
- Harrison County3
- Jessamine County3
- Lawrence County3
- Lewis County3
- Lincoln County3
- Madison County3
62 more counties
- Marion County3
- Mercer County3
- Montgomery County3
- Nicholas County3
- Pulaski County3
- Rockcastle County3
- Rowan County3
- Scott County3
- Taylor County3
- Washington County3
- Woodford County3
- Bell County3
- Harlan County3
- Knox County3
- Pike County3
- Whitley County3
- Union County2
- Adair County2
- Bracken County2
- Grant County2
- Mason County2
- Nelson County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Spencer County2
- McCreary County2
- Butler County1
- Crittenden County1
- Daviess County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- McLean County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Ohio County1
- Webster County1
- Boone County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Edmonson County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grayson County1
- Hardin County1
- Hart County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Kenton County1
- Larue County1
- Meade County1
- Oldham County1
- Shelby County1
- Trimble County1
- Ballard County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Russell County1
- Wayne County1
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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.