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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, 2025

32 tornado watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
32
Busiest month
April11 tornado watches
Busiest day
May 20, 20255 tornado watches

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 6, 6:13 AM ESTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Boyle, Breathitt and 51 more5 hr
Feb 15, 7:37 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 18 more6 hr
Mar 14, 8:34 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more10 hr
Mar 15, 2:36 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barren, Boone, Breckinridge, Bullitt and 32 more6 hr
Mar 19, 4:19 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell and 30 more8 hr
Mar 23, 4:16 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Fulton and 8 more8 hr
Mar 30, 1:02 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCDaviess, Henderson, Union7 hr
Mar 30, 3:35 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more8 hr
Mar 30, 6:45 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAnderson, Boone, Bourbon, Boyle, Bracken, Breckinridge and 35 more6 hr
Mar 30, 9:32 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Casey, Clinton and 14 more6 hr
Apr 2, 3:52 PM EDTTornado Watch PDSSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more9 hr
Apr 2, 7:22 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Anderson, Barren, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler and 25 more6 hr
Apr 2, 9:13 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBoone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant and 6 more7 hr
Apr 3, 12:35 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bourbon and 68 more8 hr
Apr 3, 1:52 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Bell, Breathitt, Casey and 23 more9 hr
Apr 4, 3:56 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 11 more7 hr
Apr 4, 10:41 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more5 hr
Apr 5, 2:43 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Butler, Calloway, Casey and 17 more7 hr
Apr 5, 7:13 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Jackson, Knox, Laurel, McCreary, Owsley and 4 more2 hr
Apr 20, 4:41 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard7 hr
Apr 20, 10:48 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCCarlisle, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Henderson, Hickman and 5 more4 hr
May 16, 3:59 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 31 more8 hr
May 16, 7:17 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 77 more7 hr
May 20, 3:15 AM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock and 11 more4 hr
May 20, 1:10 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter and 39 more5 hr
May 20, 2:09 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more8 hr
May 20, 3:36 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCAdair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell and 30 more8 hr
May 20, 7:27 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 15 more6 hr
Jun 6, 2:11 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian and 20 more7 hr
Jun 18, 3:07 PM EDTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 28 more6 hr
Nov 7, 4:28 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCAllen, Clinton, Cumberland, McCreary, Monroe, Wayne6 hr
Dec 28, 3:47 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBallard, Caldwell, Crittenden, Daviess, Henderson, Hopkins and 6 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

80 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 20, 20255tornado watches
  2. March 30, 20253tornado watches
  3. April 3, 20253tornado watches
  4. April 5, 20253tornado watches
  5. March 15, 20252tornado watches
  6. April 2, 20252tornado watches
  7. May 16, 20252tornado watches
  8. February 6, 20251tornado watches
  9. February 16, 20251tornado watches
  10. March 19, 20251tornado watches
  11. March 23, 20251tornado watches
  12. March 31, 20251tornado watches

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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.