Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, June 2026
4 tornado watches in June 2026. 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 June 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest day
- June 18, 20262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 10:13 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Carter, Fleming and 19 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 18, 4:39 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Boyd, Bracken, Breathitt and 47 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 21, 9:19 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Bourbon, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll and 23 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 26, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 15 more | 3 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bracken County3
- Carroll County3
- Franklin County3
- Gallatin County3
- Grant County3
- Harrison County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Mason County3
- Meade County3
- Nicholas County3
- Oldham County3
- Owen County3
- Pendleton County3
- Robertson County3
- Scott County3
- Shelby County3
- Trimble County3
- Carter County2
- Fleming County2
- Greenup County2
- Lewis County2
- Anderson County2
- Bourbon County2
- Bullitt County2
- Clark County2
- Fayette County2
- Spencer County2
- Woodford County2
- Boone County1
- Campbell County1
- Kenton County1
- Bath County1
- Boyd County1
- Breathitt County1
- Elliott County1
- Estill County1
- Floyd County1
- Garrard County1
- Jessamine County1
41 more counties
- Johnson County1
- Knott County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Madison County1
- Magoffin County1
- Martin County1
- Menifee County1
- Mercer County1
- Montgomery County1
- Morgan County1
- Owsley County1
- Pike County1
- Powell County1
- Rowan County1
- Wolfe County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Hancock County1
- Hardin County1
- Nelson County1
- Ballard County1
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Christian County1
- Crittenden County1
- Daviess County1
- Graves County1
- Henderson County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Union County1
- Webster County1
Nearby
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.