Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2017
9 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest month
- March4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 1, 20174 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 28, 9:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Ballard, Bourbon, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 49 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 28, 11:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:03 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:57 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 55 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 5, 2:50 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 59 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 28, 9:27 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Bullitt, Daviess, Hancock, Hardin, Henderson and 8 more | 5 hr |
| May 24, 1:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Anderson, Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyle and 51 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 23, 3:32 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Bath, Bell, Bourbon and 51 more | 6 hr |
| Nov 5, 4:50 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Crittenden, Henderson, Livingston, McCracken, Union and 1 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bourbon County5
- Clark County5
- Fayette County5
- Harrison County5
- Jessamine County5
- Mercer County5
- Nicholas County5
- Scott County5
- Washington County5
- Woodford County5
- Anderson County4
- Breckinridge County4
- Bullitt County4
- Franklin County4
- Hancock County4
- Hardin County4
- Henderson County4
- Henry County4
- Jefferson County4
- Meade County4
- Oldham County4
- Shelby County4
- Spencer County4
- Trimble County4
- Union County4
- Adair County4
- Boyle County4
- Casey County4
- Clinton County4
- Cumberland County4
- Garrard County4
- Green County4
- Lincoln County4
- Madison County4
- Marion County4
- Metcalfe County4
- Monroe County4
- Russell County4
- Taylor County4
- Ballard County3
74 more counties
- Butler County3
- Crittenden County3
- Daviess County3
- Edmonson County3
- Grayson County3
- Hart County3
- Larue County3
- Livingston County3
- Logan County3
- McCracken County3
- Nelson County3
- Ohio County3
- Simpson County3
- Warren County3
- Webster County3
- Allen County3
- Barren County3
- Bath County3
- Elliott County3
- Estill County3
- Fleming County3
- Jackson County3
- Laurel County3
- McCreary County3
- Menifee County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morgan County3
- Powell County3
- Pulaski County3
- Rockcastle County3
- Rowan County3
- Wayne County3
- Whitley County3
- Caldwell County2
- Calloway County2
- Carlisle County2
- Christian County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Hopkins County2
- Lyon County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Boone County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Bell County2
- Breathitt County2
- Clay County2
- Floyd County2
- Harlan County2
- Johnson County2
- Knott County2
- Knox County2
- Lee County2
- Leslie County2
- Letcher County2
- Magoffin County2
- Owsley County2
- Perry County2
- Wolfe County2
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.