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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1997

43 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
43
Busiest month
March34 tornado warnings
Busiest day
March 29, 199717 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
Mar 1, 5:54 AM ESTTornado WarningLMKMonroe36 min
Mar 1, 6:06 AM ESTTornado WarningLMKCumberland24 min
Mar 1, 12:56 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKWashington34 min
Mar 1, 3:01 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLMenifee, Powell49 min
Mar 1, 3:13 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLMorgan47 min
Mar 1, 6:49 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHMcLean26 min
Mar 1, 7:24 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHCarlisle36 min
Mar 1, 8:08 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHLivingston, McCracken, Marshall37 min
Mar 1, 8:26 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHLyon34 min
Mar 1, 8:39 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell36 min
Mar 2, 12:05 AM ESTTornado WarningLMKAdair40 min
Mar 2, 12:34 AM ESTTornado WarningLMKCasey26 min
Mar 2, 12:44 AM ESTTornado WarningJKLPowell46 min
Mar 2, 1:15 AM ESTTornado WarningJKLRockcastle45 min
Mar 2, 1:28 AM ESTTornado WarningJKLMenifee, Montgomery, Powell47 min
Mar 2, 1:34 AM ESTTornado WarningJKLMorgan61 min
Mar 28, 6:46 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKHardin29 min
Mar 28, 7:07 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKHart38 min
Mar 28, 7:17 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKGreen, Larue43 min
Mar 28, 7:30 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden, Union, Webster45 min
Mar 28, 7:31 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Barren44 min
Mar 28, 7:36 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKMarion39 min
Mar 28, 8:00 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKMetcalfe30 min
Mar 28, 8:11 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKAdair49 min
Mar 28, 8:28 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKCasey47 min
Mar 28, 8:46 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLRockcastle59 min
Mar 28, 8:46 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLWayne59 min
Mar 28, 8:46 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLPowell59 min
Mar 28, 8:49 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKRussell41 min
Mar 28, 9:06 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKJefferson, Oldham, Shelby39 min
Mar 28, 10:07 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKGarrard, Madison38 min
Mar 28, 10:07 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKLincoln38 min
Mar 28, 10:30 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLaurel60 min
Mar 28, 11:51 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLeslie, Perry64 min
Apr 30, 11:19 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKWarren26 min
Jun 13, 6:58 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBell32 min
Jun 13, 7:16 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg29 min
Jul 2, 7:22 PM EDTTornado WarningILNCampbell, Kenton33 min
Jul 2, 7:58 PM EDTTornado WarningILNCampbell47 min
Jul 2, 8:29 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBracken51 min
Jul 2, 9:11 PM EDTTornado WarningILNMason49 min
Jul 27, 9:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKJefferson24 min
Aug 18, 2:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson47 min

By county

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

7 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 29, 199717tornado warnings
  2. March 2, 199710tornado warnings
  3. March 1, 19976tornado warnings
  4. June 13, 19972tornado warnings
  5. July 2, 19972tornado warnings
  6. July 3, 19972tornado warnings
  7. March 28, 19971tornado warnings
  8. May 1, 19971tornado warnings
  9. July 28, 19971tornado warnings
  10. August 18, 19971tornado 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.