Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2019
6 tornado watches in 2019. 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- October2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- March 14, 20191 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 14, 10:47 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Boone, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 14, 2:33 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 2 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 15, 8:40 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 4 hr |
| Oct 21, 4:06 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 6 hr |
| Oct 31, 12:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Pike | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County3
- Boone County3
- Campbell County3
- Carlisle County3
- Fulton County3
- Graves County3
- Hickman County3
- Kenton County3
- McCracken County3
- Calloway County2
- Gallatin County2
- Marshall County2
- Pike County2
- Breckinridge County1
- Bullitt County1
- Butler County1
- Caldwell County1
- Carroll County1
- Christian County1
- Crittenden County1
- Daviess County1
- Edmonson County1
- Grayson County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Henderson County1
- Hopkins County1
- Jefferson County1
- Livingston County1
- Logan County1
- Lyon County1
- McLean County1
- Meade County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Ohio County1
- Oldham County1
- Simpson County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Trimble County1
56 more counties
- Union County1
- Warren County1
- Webster County1
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyd County1
- Bracken County1
- Breathitt County1
- Carter County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Floyd County1
- Garrard County1
- Grant County1
- Greenup County1
- Harlan County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Lewis County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCreary County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Mason County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owen County1
- Owsley County1
- Pendleton County1
- Perry County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
- Robertson County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Rowan County1
- Scott County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Wolfe County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
Alerts in force nowTornadoes on recordThe radar archive20182020
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.