Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2016
9 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- February2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- February 2, 20162 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 1:22 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 2, 4:10 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge, Butler and 24 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Daviess and 16 more | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Ballard, Barren, Butler, Caldwell and 35 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 22, 10:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and 4 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt and 38 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 23 more | 8 hr |
| Jul 3, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Casey, Clinton and 20 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 17, 2:42 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Boyle and 54 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Caldwell County5
- Christian County5
- Crittenden County5
- Daviess County5
- Henderson County5
- Hopkins County5
- Lyon County5
- McLean County5
- Muhlenberg County5
- Todd County5
- Trigg County5
- Union County5
- Webster County5
- Butler County5
- Edmonson County5
- Grayson County5
- Logan County5
- Ohio County5
- Simpson County5
- Warren County5
- Ballard County4
- Calloway County4
- Carlisle County4
- Fulton County4
- Graves County4
- Hickman County4
- Livingston County4
- McCracken County4
- Marshall County4
- Adair County4
- Allen County4
- Barren County4
- Breckinridge County4
- Casey County4
- Clinton County4
- Cumberland County4
- Green County4
- Hancock County4
- Hart County4
- Metcalfe County4
67 more counties
- Monroe County4
- Russell County4
- Taylor County4
- Boyle County3
- Hardin County3
- Larue County3
- Lincoln County3
- Marion County3
- Meade County3
- Nelson County3
- Washington County3
- Mercer County2
- Boone County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyd County1
- Breathitt County1
- Carroll County1
- Carter County1
- Clark County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Floyd County1
- Greenup County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owen County1
- Owsley County1
- Pike County1
- Powell County1
- Rowan County1
- Scott County1
- Wolfe County1
- McCreary County1
- Pulaski County1
- Wayne County1
- Anderson County1
- Bullitt County1
- Franklin County1
- Garrard County1
- Jefferson County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Woodford County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.