Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Watches / 2026
Tornado Watches in Kentucky, March 2026
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 11, 20263 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 11, 6:22 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boone, Bracken, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Campbell, Carroll and 20 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 11, 10:35 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence | 8 hr |
| Mar 11, 11:59 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bath, Boone, Bourbon, Bracken, Bullitt, Campbell and 23 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden and 16 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 15, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Adair, Allen, Anderson, Barren, Bourbon, Boyle and 46 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bullitt County3
- Carroll County3
- Gallatin County3
- Henry County3
- Jefferson County3
- Meade County3
- Oldham County3
- Owen County3
- Shelby County3
- Spencer County3
- Trimble County3
- Boone County2
- Bracken County2
- Breckinridge County2
- Campbell County2
- Daviess County2
- Grant County2
- Hancock County2
- Hardin County2
- Henderson County2
- Kenton County2
- Lewis County2
- Mason County2
- Pendleton County2
- Robertson County2
- Union County2
- Bourbon County2
- Franklin County2
- Harrison County2
- Nicholas County2
- Scott County2
- Boyd County1
- Carter County1
- Greenup County1
- Lawrence County1
- Bath County1
- Elliott County1
- Fleming County1
- Rowan County1
- Ballard County1
51 more counties
- Caldwell County1
- Calloway County1
- Carlisle County1
- Christian County1
- Crittenden County1
- Fulton County1
- Graves County1
- Hickman County1
- Hopkins County1
- Livingston County1
- Lyon County1
- McCracken County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Muhlenberg County1
- Todd County1
- Trigg County1
- Webster County1
- Adair County1
- Allen County1
- Anderson County1
- Barren County1
- Boyle County1
- Butler County1
- Casey County1
- Clark County1
- Clinton County1
- Cumberland County1
- Edmonson County1
- Fayette County1
- Garrard County1
- Grayson County1
- Green County1
- Hart County1
- Jessamine County1
- Larue County1
- Lincoln County1
- Logan County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Mercer County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Monroe County1
- Nelson County1
- Ohio County1
- Russell County1
- Simpson County1
- Taylor County1
- Warren County1
- Washington County1
- Woodford 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.