Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings / 1996

Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, May 1996

42 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
42
Busiest day
May 29, 199617 tornado warnings

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
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

By county

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

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.