Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2003
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2003
23 tornado watches in May 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 23
- Busiest day
- May 5, 200310 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 4, 7:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins, McLean, Ohio and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 12:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 44 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 2:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton and 7 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 4:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 5:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton | 6 hr |
| May 5, 8:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 69 more | 5 hr |
| May 5, 10:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Calloway, Fulton | 5 hr |
| May 5, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 73 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton | 7 hr |
| May 5, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bracken, Campbell, Grant, Greenup, Kenton, Lewis and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 6:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Graves and 12 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 12:50 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bourbon and 58 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 5:55 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton | 6 hr |
| May 8, 11:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 8, 6:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 41 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 12:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 5 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott and 19 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 6:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Elliott, Floyd, Greenup and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 10, 9:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 10, 10:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Oldham | 5 hr |
| May 11, 12:20 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 38 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 2:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 46 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fulton County10
- Todd County10
- Caldwell County9
- Christian County9
- Graves County9
- Lyon County9
- Trigg County9
- Calloway County8
- McCracken County8
- Marshall County8
- Hopkins County8
- Muhlenberg County8
- Livingston County8
- Ballard County7
- Carlisle County7
- Hickman County7
- McLean County7
- Ohio County7
- Union County7
- Adair County7
- Barren County7
- Butler County7
- Grayson County7
- Green County7
- Larue County7
- Logan County7
- Marion County7
- Metcalfe County7
- Nelson County7
- Simpson County7
- Spencer County7
- Taylor County7
- Warren County7
- Washington County7
- Crittenden County6
- Daviess County6
- Henderson County6
- Webster County6
- Allen County6
- Anderson County6
80 more counties
- Boyle County6
- Breckinridge County6
- Bullitt County6
- Casey County6
- Cumberland County6
- Edmonson County6
- Fayette County6
- Hancock County6
- Hardin County6
- Hart County6
- Jefferson County6
- Jessamine County6
- Meade County6
- Mercer County6
- Monroe County6
- Russell County6
- Woodford County6
- Bourbon County5
- Clinton County5
- Garrard County5
- Lincoln County5
- Menifee County5
- Oldham County4
- Shelby County4
- Breathitt County4
- Elliott County4
- Johnson County4
- Knott County4
- Lawrence County4
- Magoffin County4
- Morgan County4
- Rowan County4
- Wolfe County4
- Greenup County4
- Lewis County4
- Franklin County3
- Henry County3
- Scott County3
- Bell County3
- Clark County3
- Clay County3
- Estill County3
- Floyd County3
- Harlan County3
- Jackson County3
- Laurel County3
- Lee County3
- Leslie County3
- McCreary County3
- Madison County3
- Martin County3
- Montgomery County3
- Owsley County3
- Perry County3
- Powell County3
- Pulaski County3
- Rockcastle County3
- Wayne County3
- Harrison County2
- Owen County2
- Robertson County2
- Bath County2
- Knox County2
- Letcher County2
- Whitley County2
- Fleming County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Mason County2
- Pendleton County2
- Boyd County2
- Carter County2
- Pike County2
- Trimble County1
- Nicholas County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.