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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2015
11 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- April5 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 3, 20152 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 39 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle and 53 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 9, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 1:37 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 58 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 25, 1:55 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 11, 1:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Kenton, Trimble | 7 hr |
| May 24, 5:14 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 8 hr |
| Jun 29, 2:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 78 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 8, 7:05 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Livingston, McCracken and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 23, 10:13 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Fulton and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Dec 23, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Carroll, Christian, Daviess and 24 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County6
- Daviess County6
- McLean County6
- Carlisle County5
- Crittenden County5
- Fulton County5
- Henderson County5
- Hickman County5
- Livingston County5
- McCracken County5
- Muhlenberg County5
- Trimble County5
- Union County5
- Webster County5
- Bullitt County4
- Caldwell County4
- Calloway County4
- Christian County4
- Edmonson County4
- Graves County4
- Hardin County4
- Hart County4
- Henry County4
- Hopkins County4
- Jefferson County4
- Larue County4
- Lyon County4
- Marshall County4
- Nelson County4
- Oldham County4
- Shelby County4
- Simpson County4
- Spencer County4
- Todd County4
- Trigg County4
- Warren County4
- Carroll County4
- Allen County3
- Barren County3
- Breckinridge County3
80 more counties
- Butler County3
- Grayson County3
- Hancock County3
- Logan County3
- Meade County3
- Ohio County3
- Adair County3
- Anderson County3
- Bourbon County3
- Boyle County3
- Casey County3
- Clark County3
- Clinton County3
- Cumberland County3
- Fayette County3
- Franklin County3
- Garrard County3
- Green County3
- Harrison County3
- Jessamine County3
- Lincoln County3
- Madison County3
- Marion County3
- Mercer County3
- Metcalfe County3
- Monroe County3
- Nicholas County3
- Russell County3
- Scott County3
- Taylor County3
- Washington County3
- Woodford County3
- Boone County3
- Campbell County3
- Gallatin County3
- Kenton County3
- Bath County2
- Bell County2
- Breathitt County2
- Clay County2
- Elliott County2
- Estill County2
- Fleming County2
- Jackson County2
- Johnson County2
- Knox County2
- Laurel County2
- Lee County2
- McCreary County2
- Magoffin County2
- Martin County2
- Menifee County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Owsley County2
- Powell County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Rowan County2
- Wayne County2
- Whitley County2
- Wolfe County2
- Bracken County2
- Grant County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Floyd County1
- Harlan County1
- Knott County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Boyd County1
- Carter County1
- Greenup County1
- Lawrence 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.