Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2021
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, December 2021
6 tornado watches in December 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 December 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- December 11, 20214 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Ballard County3
- Caldwell County3
- Calloway County3
- Carlisle County3
- Christian County3
- Crittenden County3
- Daviess County3
- Fulton County3
- Graves County3
- Henderson County3
- Hickman County3
- Hopkins County3
- Livingston County3
- Lyon County3
- McCracken County3
- McLean County3
- Marshall County3
- Muhlenberg County3
- Todd County3
- Trigg County3
- Union County3
- Webster County3
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Barren County2
- Bullitt County2
- Edmonson County2
- Franklin County2
- Grayson County2
- Green County2
- Hardin County2
- Hart County2
- Larue County2
- Marion County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Nelson County2
- Simpson County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
62 more counties
- Warren County2
- Washington County2
- Breckinridge County1
- Butler County1
- Hancock County1
- Henry County1
- Jefferson County1
- Logan County1
- Meade County1
- Ohio County1
- Oldham 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
- Adair County1
- Bath County1
- Bourbon County1
- Boyle County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Fayette County1
- Fleming County1
- Garrard County1
- Harrison County1
- Jackson County1
- Jessamine County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCreary County1
- Madison County1
- Menifee County1
- Mercer County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owsley County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Rowan County1
- Russell County1
- Scott County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Wolfe County1
- Woodford County1
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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.