Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2018
11 tornado watches in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 11
- Busiest month
- April4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- April 3, 20183 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 24, 4:16 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 8 hr |
| Feb 24, 9:29 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Butler, Casey and 22 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 3, 1:16 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Daviess and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 7 hr |
| Apr 3, 7:30 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Boone and 62 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 13, 11:12 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman | 10 hr |
| May 31, 2:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Fulton and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 20, 1:37 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Bourbon and 54 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 20, 7:22 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bourbon and 65 more | 8 hr |
| Sep 8, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hancock and 12 more | 3 hr |
| Nov 5, 11:30 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Barren, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Green and 5 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marion County6
- Ballard County5
- Carlisle County5
- Fulton County5
- Graves County5
- Hickman County5
- Adair County5
- Barren County5
- Boyle County5
- Casey County5
- Clinton County5
- Cumberland County5
- Grayson County5
- Green County5
- Hardin County5
- Larue County5
- Mercer County5
- Metcalfe County5
- Monroe County5
- Nelson County5
- Ohio County5
- Russell County5
- Taylor County5
- Washington County5
- Hancock County5
- Jefferson County5
- Oldham County5
- Shelby County5
- Caldwell County4
- Christian County4
- Crittenden County4
- Daviess County4
- Henderson County4
- Hopkins County4
- Livingston County4
- Lyon County4
- McCracken County4
- Marshall County4
- Union County4
- Webster County4
47 more counties
- Allen County4
- Butler County4
- Edmonson County4
- Garrard County4
- Hart County4
- Lincoln County4
- Logan County4
- Simpson County4
- Warren County4
- Bourbon County4
- Franklin County4
- Harrison County4
- Henry County4
- Nicholas County4
- Scott County4
- Trimble County4
- Anderson County4
- Breckinridge County4
- Bullitt County4
- Meade County4
- Spencer County4
- Calloway County3
- McLean County3
- Muhlenberg County3
- Todd County3
- Trigg County3
- Boone County3
- Bracken County3
- Campbell County3
- Carroll County3
- Gallatin County3
- Grant County3
- Kenton County3
- Mason County3
- Owen County3
- Pendleton County3
- Robertson County3
- Clark County3
- Fayette County3
- Jessamine County3
- Madison County3
- Woodford County3
- Lewis County2
- Bath County1
- Fleming County1
- Montgomery County1
- Rowan 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.