Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, February 2023
5 tornado watches in February 2023. 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 February 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 16, 20232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:51 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 11 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 1:00 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Barren, Clinton, Cumberland, Logan, Metcalfe and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 22, 1:20 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, McCracken | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 1:28 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 5 hr |
| Feb 27, 4:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Greenup | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County2
- McCracken County2
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Christian County1
- Crittenden County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Allen County1
- Barren County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Logan County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Simpson County1
- Warren County1
- Boone County1
- Campbell County1
- Kenton County1
- Greenup 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.