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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 1998

71 tornado warnings in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
71
Busiest month
April41 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 16, 199814 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 27, 11:31 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHBallard29 min
Apr 3, 5:19 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKCumberland, Monroe46 min
Apr 3, 5:46 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLWayne49 min
Apr 3, 5:47 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKClinton43 min
Apr 3, 5:52 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLWayne68 min
Apr 3, 6:15 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLMcCreary45 min
Apr 3, 6:49 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLPulaski31 min
Apr 3, 6:49 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLPowell31 min
Apr 3, 7:25 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLKnox35 min
Apr 3, 7:33 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLWhitley32 min
Apr 8, 2:33 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKLogan47 min
Apr 8, 2:40 AM EDTTornado WarningILNBoone50 min
Apr 8, 3:15 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKEdmonson30 min
Apr 8, 3:33 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKHart32 min
Apr 8, 3:39 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKBarren31 min
Apr 8, 3:57 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKGreen, Metcalfe23 min
Apr 8, 2:53 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBoyle, Mercer22 min
Apr 8, 6:23 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHFulton37 min
Apr 8, 6:54 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden36 min
Apr 8, 6:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess33 min
Apr 8, 7:26 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMcCracken24 min
Apr 8, 7:36 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHLivingston44 min
Apr 8, 7:39 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHFulton, Hickman31 min
Apr 8, 8:04 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden41 min
Apr 13, 10:26 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston49 min
Apr 16, 12:55 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHUnion35 min
Apr 16, 4:02 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHTodd18 min
Apr 16, 4:26 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLogan, Warren49 min
Apr 16, 5:04 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Barren46 min
Apr 16, 6:04 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair31 min
Apr 16, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair30 min
Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLWayne43 min
Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLWayne68 min
Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLPulaski60 min
Apr 16, 7:20 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLHarlan60 min
Apr 16, 7:36 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLRockcastle49 min
Apr 16, 7:38 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLMcCreary37 min
Apr 16, 7:41 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLJackson64 min
Apr 16, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLWhitley47 min
Apr 16, 8:02 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLPulaski63 min
Apr 16, 8:10 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLOwsley50 min
Apr 16, 9:19 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKClinton36 min
May 13, 8:30 PM EDTTornado WarningILNMason50 min
May 20, 8:33 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLMartin, Pike62 min
May 24, 4:15 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXGreenup30 min
May 25, 9:28 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKEdmonson, Warren47 min
May 25, 9:07 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLaurel33 min
May 31, 5:04 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKTrimble26 min
May 31, 5:10 PM EDTTornado WarningILNCarroll65 min
May 31, 5:19 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHenry31 min
May 31, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin39 min
May 31, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt39 min
May 31, 6:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBullitt, Hardin49 min
May 31, 7:14 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Larue36 min
May 31, 7:14 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Larue31 min
May 31, 7:47 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKTaylor43 min
May 31, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLPowell50 min
May 31, 8:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair28 min
May 31, 8:47 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKCasey18 min
May 31, 9:11 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLPulaski49 min
May 31, 9:23 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLMcCreary47 min
May 31, 9:48 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKGreen47 min
May 31, 9:55 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLWhitley45 min
Jun 10, 1:50 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin, Meade30 min
Jun 10, 6:13 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg32 min
Jun 10, 6:27 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan43 min
Jun 10, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg18 min
Jun 10, 9:26 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLRockcastle34 min
Jun 11, 4:44 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXLawrence16 min
Jun 12, 10:55 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson, Union65 min
Jun 14, 9:01 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg49 min

By county

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

12 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 16, 199814tornado warnings
  2. April 8, 199813tornado warnings
  3. May 31, 199810tornado warnings
  4. April 3, 19987tornado warnings
  5. June 1, 19986tornado warnings
  6. June 10, 19984tornado warnings
  7. April 17, 19983tornado warnings
  8. April 4, 19982tornado warnings
  9. June 11, 19982tornado warnings
  10. March 28, 19981tornado warnings
  11. April 9, 19981tornado warnings
  12. April 14, 19981tornado 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.