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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2012

19 tornado watches in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
February5 tornado watches
Busiest day
February 29, 20125 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 22, 8:28 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more5 hr
Feb 29, 2:14 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more11 hr
Feb 29, 5:39 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 54 more7 hr
Feb 29, 8:27 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more5 hr
Feb 29, 12:31 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bell, Boyle and 59 more8 hr
Feb 29, 1:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBoyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence, Lewis, Mason7 hr
Mar 2, 10:54 AM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more6 hr
Mar 2, 1:02 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 68 more8 hr
Mar 2, 4:19 PM ESTTornado Watch PDSSPCBell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott and 18 more6 hr
Mar 23, 6:25 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 42 more7 hr
Apr 28, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBreckinridge, Daviess, Hancock, Henderson, Meade, Union5 hr
May 1, 3:01 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 8 more7 hr
May 1, 6:31 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter and 9 more5 hr
Aug 31, 2:56 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman8 hr
Sep 1, 2:19 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more8 hr
Sep 2, 3:49 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 37 more7 hr
Oct 1, 8:06 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCMcCreary, Pulaski, Wayne, Whitley3 hr
Oct 17, 6:21 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken7 hr
Dec 9, 3:10 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more9 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

80 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. February 29, 20125tornado watches
  2. March 2, 20123tornado watches
  3. May 1, 20122tornado watches
  4. January 23, 20121tornado watches
  5. March 23, 20121tornado watches
  6. April 28, 20121tornado watches
  7. August 31, 20121tornado watches
  8. September 1, 20121tornado watches
  9. September 2, 20121tornado watches
  10. October 2, 20121tornado watches
  11. October 17, 20121tornado watches
  12. December 9, 20121tornado watches

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.