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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2021
10 tornado watches in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- December6 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- December 11, 20214 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, 3:22 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Calloway, Christian, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 5 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 25, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Ballard, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 36 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 25, 10:26 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Boyle, Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Estill and 19 more | 2 hr |
| Oct 24, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Hickman | 7 hr |
| Dec 5, 9:59 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Dec 10, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess and 13 more | 11 hr |
| Dec 10, 7:21 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 28 more | 10 hr |
| Dec 11, 12:03 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Dec 11, 12:20 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Dec 11, 2:27 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 51 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Fulton County6
- Hickman County6
- Calloway County5
- Christian County5
- Graves County5
- Todd County5
- Trigg County5
- Ballard County5
- Carlisle County5
- Allen County4
- Simpson County4
- Warren County4
- Caldwell County4
- Crittenden County4
- Daviess County4
- Henderson County4
- Hopkins County4
- Livingston County4
- Lyon County4
- McCracken County4
- McLean County4
- Marshall County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Union County4
- Webster County4
- Logan County3
- Barren County3
- Bullitt County3
- Edmonson County3
- Grayson County3
- Hardin County3
- Hart County3
- Larue County3
- Metcalfe County3
- Monroe County3
- Green County3
- Marion County3
- Nelson County3
- Taylor County3
- Washington County3
63 more counties
- Breckinridge County2
- Butler County2
- Hancock County2
- Jefferson County2
- Meade County2
- Ohio County2
- Oldham County2
- Adair County2
- Boyle County2
- Casey County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
- Estill County2
- Garrard County2
- Jackson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Laurel County2
- Lincoln County2
- McCreary County2
- Madison County2
- Mercer County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Russell County2
- Wayne County2
- Whitley County2
- Anderson County2
- Franklin County2
- Spencer County2
- Knox County1
- Henry County1
- Shelby County1
- Trimble County1
- Boone County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Kenton County1
- Lewis County1
- Mason County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Clark County1
- Elliott County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Harrison County1
- Lee County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owsley County1
- Powell County1
- Rowan County1
- Scott County1
- Wolfe 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.