Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2023
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, March 2023
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 3, 20233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 3, 7:24 AM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 25 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 3, 12:07 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 62 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 3, 3:19 PM EST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell, Carroll and 26 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:28 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, McCracken | 11 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge and 55 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Breckinridge County3
- Butler County3
- Daviess County3
- Edmonson County3
- Grayson County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Logan County3
- Meade County3
- Ohio County3
- Simpson County3
- Warren County3
- Caldwell County2
- Calloway County2
- Carlisle County2
- Christian County2
- Crittenden County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Hickman County2
- Hopkins County2
- Livingston County2
- Lyon County2
- McCracken County2
- McLean County2
- Marshall County2
- Muhlenberg County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Union County2
- Webster County2
- Adair County2
- Allen County2
- Anderson County2
- Barren County2
- Boyle County2
- Bullitt County2
- Casey County2
- Clinton County2
- Cumberland County2
80 more counties
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Garrard County2
- Green County2
- Hardin County2
- Harrison County2
- Hart County2
- Henry County2
- Jefferson County2
- Jessamine County2
- Larue County2
- Lincoln County2
- Marion County2
- Mercer County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Nelson County2
- Oldham County2
- Russell County2
- Scott County2
- Shelby County2
- Spencer County2
- Taylor County2
- Trimble County2
- Washington County2
- Woodford County2
- Bath County1
- Bell County1
- Bourbon County1
- Clark County1
- Clay County1
- Estill County1
- Jackson County1
- Knox County1
- Laurel County1
- Lee County1
- McCreary County1
- Madison County1
- Menifee County1
- Montgomery County1
- Nicholas County1
- Owsley County1
- Powell County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Wayne County1
- Whitley County1
- Boone County1
- Boyd County1
- Bracken County1
- Breathitt County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Carter County1
- Elliott County1
- Fleming County1
- Floyd County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Greenup County1
- Harlan County1
- Johnson County1
- Kenton County1
- Knott County1
- Lawrence County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Lewis County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Mason County1
- Morgan County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Robertson County1
- Rowan County1
- Wolfe County1
- Ballard 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.