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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2013
17 tornado watches in 2013. 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 2013. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 17
- Busiest month
- November5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- January 30, 20134 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 29, 8:13 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 6 hr |
| Jan 29, 10:35 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell and 33 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 30, 4:35 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 57 more | 4 hr |
| Jan 30, 5:51 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter, Clay and 31 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 10, 9:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 18, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Henderson and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 11:56 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 9 more | 6 hr |
| May 31, 10:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Livingston, McCracken and 3 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 5, 9:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Oct 31, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 30 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 31, 8:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 29 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 17, 11:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 3 more | 9 hr |
| Nov 17, 11:43 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Nov 17, 2:58 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 43 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 17, 4:25 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenup, Lewis, Mason, Robertson | 5 hr |
| Dec 21, 5:49 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Christian and 26 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 21, 9:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland and 6 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crittenden County9
- Henderson County9
- Livingston County9
- Webster County9
- Ballard County8
- Graves County8
- McCracken County8
- Marshall County8
- Union County8
- Carlisle County7
- Fulton County7
- Hickman County7
- Caldwell County7
- Calloway County7
- Lyon County7
- Daviess County6
- McLean County6
- Allen County5
- Barren County5
- Bullitt County5
- Christian County5
- Hart County5
- Henry County5
- Hopkins County5
- Jefferson County5
- Muhlenberg County5
- Oldham County5
- Todd County5
- Trigg County5
- Trimble County5
- Breckinridge County4
- Butler County4
- Edmonson County4
- Grayson County4
- Hancock County4
- Hardin County4
- Larue County4
- Logan County4
- Meade County4
- Nelson County4
80 more counties
- Ohio County4
- Shelby County4
- Simpson County4
- Spencer County4
- Warren County4
- Adair County4
- Casey County4
- Clinton County4
- Cumberland County4
- Green County4
- Metcalfe County4
- Monroe County4
- Russell County4
- Taylor County4
- Anderson County3
- Bourbon County3
- Boyle County3
- Clark County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Garrard County3
- Harrison County3
- Jessamine County3
- Lincoln County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Mercer County3
- Nicholas County3
- Scott County3
- Washington County3
- Woodford County3
- Bath County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Estill County2
- Fleming County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Jackson County2
- Laurel County2
- Lee County2
- Lewis County2
- McCreary County2
- Mason County2
- Menifee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Powell County2
- Pulaski County2
- Robertson County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Rowan County2
- Wayne County2
- Whitley County2
- Greenup County2
- Bell County1
- Boyd County1
- Breathitt County1
- Carter County1
- Clay County1
- Elliott County1
- Floyd County1
- Harlan County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Lawrence County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Morgan County1
- Owsley County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Wolfe County1
- Boone County1
- Kenton County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.