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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1996

56 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
56
Busiest month
May42 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 29, 199617 tornado warnings

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
Apr 20, 1:17 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKHancock43 min
Apr 20, 1:42 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHMarshall48 min
Apr 20, 3:28 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan47 min
Apr 20, 4:16 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKHart29 min
Apr 20, 4:29 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKGreen31 min
Apr 20, 5:36 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKMadison24 min
Apr 20, 5:40 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKEstill, Powell50 min
Apr 20, 6:21 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKMenifee24 min
May 3, 11:57 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKJefferson33 min
May 4, 12:04 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKSpencer41 min
May 4, 12:13 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt17 min
May 4, 12:26 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKSpencer34 min
May 5, 2:31 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMercer, Washington44 min
May 5, 2:40 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAnderson, Woodford35 min
May 5, 4:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKRockcastle39 min
May 5, 4:35 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMadison20 min
May 5, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLJackson61 min
May 5, 5:46 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge14 min
May 5, 6:03 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMeade27 min
May 5, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMartin43 min
May 5, 7:21 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLFloyd, Pike64 min
May 8, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBracken28 min
May 24, 9:36 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKSpencer24 min
May 24, 9:54 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLarue36 min
May 27, 3:20 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXMartin25 min
May 28, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg47 min
May 28, 6:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan43 min
May 28, 6:44 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Jefferson46 min
May 28, 6:57 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKWarren48 min
May 28, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKSpencer45 min
May 28, 7:34 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAnderson41 min
May 28, 7:46 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Barren44 min
May 28, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKShelby20 min
May 28, 8:03 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKJefferson27 min
May 28, 8:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge39 min
May 28, 8:10 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAnderson20 min
May 28, 8:12 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKWoodford48 min
May 28, 8:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMonroe43 min
May 28, 8:29 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKFayette, Jessamine46 min
May 28, 8:48 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAnderson42 min
May 28, 8:58 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKCumberland, Monroe47 min
May 28, 9:11 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKGarrard, Jessamine, Madison49 min
May 28, 9:25 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHarrison, Nicholas35 min
May 28, 9:30 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKClinton30 min
May 28, 10:02 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLee, Wolfe58 min
May 28, 10:03 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKEstill27 min
May 28, 10:08 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKPowell22 min
May 28, 10:37 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLincoln23 min
May 28, 10:39 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBreathitt61 min
May 28, 10:47 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKRockcastle33 min
Jun 3, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Larue34 min
Jun 3, 10:12 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKClinton33 min
Jul 2, 9:24 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess36 min
Nov 7, 2:22 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKEdmonson38 min
Nov 7, 3:13 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKMarion, Taylor32 min
Nov 7, 4:17 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKJessamine13 min

By county

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

8 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 29, 199617tornado warnings
  2. May 5, 19969tornado warnings
  3. April 20, 19968tornado warnings
  4. May 28, 19968tornado warnings
  5. May 4, 19964tornado warnings
  6. November 7, 19963tornado warnings
  7. May 25, 19962tornado warnings
  8. May 8, 19961tornado warnings
  9. May 27, 19961tornado warnings
  10. June 3, 19961tornado warnings
  11. June 4, 19961tornado warnings
  12. July 3, 19961tornado warnings

Nearby

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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. Rebuilt daily.