Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2024
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2024
12 tornado watches in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 8, 20245 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 7, 6:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more | 8 hr |
| May 7, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Ballard, Barren, Bath and 69 more | 7 hr |
| May 7, 9:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 7 hr |
| May 8, 2:57 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle and 23 more | 4 hr |
| May 8, 11:29 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 11 more | 8 hr |
| May 8, 2:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Boyle, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 28 more | 10 hr |
| May 8, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 9 hr |
| May 26, 3:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 9:59 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bell, Boyle and 59 more | 8 hr |
| May 26, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 26, 7:54 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 37 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 11:06 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bell, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle and 61 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Christian County7
- Daviess County7
- Hopkins County7
- McLean County7
- Muhlenberg County7
- Todd County7
- Webster County7
- Ballard County6
- Caldwell County6
- Calloway County6
- Carlisle County6
- Crittenden County6
- Fulton County6
- Graves County6
- Henderson County6
- Hickman County6
- Livingston County6
- Lyon County6
- McCracken County6
- Marshall County6
- Trigg County6
- Union County6
- Breckinridge County5
- Butler County5
- Edmonson County5
- Grayson County5
- Hancock County5
- Logan County5
- Ohio County5
- Simpson County5
- Warren County5
- Adair County4
- Allen County4
- Barren County4
- Boyle County4
- Bullitt County4
- Casey County4
- Clinton County4
- Cumberland County4
- Green County4
80 more counties
- Hardin County4
- Hart County4
- Jefferson County4
- Larue County4
- Lincoln County4
- Marion County4
- Meade County4
- Metcalfe County4
- Monroe County4
- Russell County4
- Taylor County4
- Anderson County3
- Clark County3
- Fayette County3
- Garrard County3
- Jessamine County3
- Madison County3
- Mercer County3
- Montgomery County3
- Nelson County3
- Oldham County3
- Shelby County3
- Spencer County3
- Washington County3
- Woodford County3
- Boone County2
- Bracken County2
- Campbell County2
- Carroll County2
- Gallatin County2
- Grant County2
- Kenton County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Owen County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Bath County2
- Bourbon County2
- Fleming County2
- Franklin County2
- Harrison County2
- Henry County2
- Nicholas County2
- Rowan County2
- Scott County2
- Trimble County2
- Carter County2
- Bell County2
- Clay County2
- Estill County2
- Jackson County2
- Knox County2
- Laurel County2
- Lee County2
- McCreary County2
- Owsley County2
- Powell County2
- Pulaski County2
- Rockcastle County2
- Wayne County2
- Whitley County2
- Boyd County1
- Greenup County1
- Breathitt County1
- Elliott County1
- Floyd County1
- Harlan County1
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Lawrence County1
- Leslie County1
- Letcher County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Morgan County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Wolfe 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.