Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2018
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, April 2018
4 tornado watches in April 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 April 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- April 3, 20183 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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, 1:16 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County2
- Bourbon County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Daviess County2
- Franklin County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Hancock County2
- Harrison County2
- Henderson County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Kenton County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Nicholas County2
- Oldham County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Trimble County2
- Union County2
- Ballard County2
- Carlisle County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Crittenden County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
47 more counties
- Trigg County1
- Webster County1
- Adair County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Barren County1
- Bath County1
- Boyle County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Butler County1
- Casey County1
- Christian County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edmonson County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Garrard County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hardin County1
- Hart County1
- Jessamine County1
- Larue County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Meade County1
- Mercer County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Montgomery County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Nelson County1
- Ohio County1
- Rowan County1
- Russell County1
- Simpson County1
- Spencer County1
- Taylor County1
- Todd County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Woodford County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.