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Tornado Watches in Kentucky, May 2025
7 tornado watches in May 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 May 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 20, 20255 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 16, 3:59 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Butler, Caldwell, Calloway and 31 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bath, Bell and 77 more | 7 hr |
| May 20, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Carlisle, Crittenden, Daviess, Hancock and 11 more | 4 hr |
| May 20, 1:10 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Bell, Bourbon, Boyd, Breathitt, Carter and 39 more | 5 hr |
| May 20, 2:09 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman and 3 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 3:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Barren, Breckinridge, Butler, Caldwell and 30 more | 8 hr |
| May 20, 7:27 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Estill, Harlan, Jackson and 15 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ballard County3
- Caldwell County3
- Carlisle County3
- Crittenden County3
- Daviess County3
- Hancock County3
- Henderson County3
- Hopkins County3
- Livingston County3
- Lyon County3
- McCracken County3
- McLean County3
- Marshall County3
- Muhlenberg County3
- Ohio County3
- Union County3
- Webster County3
- Bell County3
- Breathitt County3
- Clay County3
- Clinton County3
- Estill County3
- Harlan County3
- Jackson County3
- Knott County3
- Knox County3
- Laurel County3
- Lee County3
- Leslie County3
- Letcher County3
- McCreary County3
- Owsley County3
- Perry County3
- Powell County3
- Pulaski County3
- Rockcastle County3
- Russell County3
- Wayne County3
- Whitley County3
- Wolfe County3
80 more counties
- Breckinridge County2
- Butler County2
- Calloway County2
- Christian County2
- Edmonson County2
- Fulton County2
- Graves County2
- Grayson County2
- Hardin County2
- Hickman County2
- Logan County2
- Simpson County2
- Todd County2
- Trigg County2
- Warren County2
- Adair County2
- Allen County2
- Barren County2
- Bath County2
- Bourbon County2
- Boyd County2
- Carter County2
- Casey County2
- Clark County2
- Cumberland County2
- Elliott County2
- Fleming County2
- Floyd County2
- Garrard County2
- Green County2
- Greenup County2
- Hart County2
- Johnson County2
- Larue County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Madison County2
- Magoffin County2
- Martin County2
- Menifee County2
- Metcalfe County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Morgan County2
- Nicholas County2
- Pike County2
- Rowan County2
- Taylor County2
- Bullitt County1
- Jefferson County1
- Meade County1
- Oldham County1
- Trimble County1
- Anderson County1
- Boone County1
- Boyle County1
- Bracken County1
- Campbell County1
- Carroll County1
- Fayette County1
- Franklin County1
- Gallatin County1
- Grant County1
- Harrison County1
- Henry County1
- Jessamine County1
- Kenton County1
- Lewis County1
- Marion County1
- Mason County1
- Mercer County1
- Nelson County1
- Owen County1
- Pendleton County1
- Robertson County1
- Scott County1
- Shelby County1
- Spencer County1
- Washington County1
- Woodford 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.