Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2022
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2022
3 tornado watches in May 2022. 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 May 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 3
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20221 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:29 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter and 14 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 19, 5:39 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 15 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County1
- Boyd County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Carter County1
- Fleming County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Greenup County1
- Harrison County1
- Henry County1
- Kenton County1
- Lewis County1
- Mason County1
- Oldham County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- Trimble County1
- Bell County1
- Breathitt County1
- Clay County1
- Floyd County1
- Harlan County1
- Jackson County1
- Knott County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- McCreary County1
- Owsley County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Ballard County1
20 more counties
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Christian County1
- Crittenden County1
- Daviess County1
- Graves County1
- Henderson County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Union County1
- Webster 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.