Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings / 1998
Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, April 1998
41 tornado warnings in April 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 41
- Busiest day
- April 16, 199814 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 3, 5:19 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Cumberland, Monroe | 46 min |
| Apr 3, 5:46 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 49 min |
| Apr 3, 5:47 PM EST | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 43 min |
| Apr 3, 5:52 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 68 min |
| Apr 3, 6:15 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 45 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 6:49 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Powell | 31 min |
| Apr 3, 7:25 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Knox | 35 min |
| Apr 3, 7:33 PM EST | Tornado Warning | JKL | Whitley | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 2:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan | 47 min |
| Apr 8, 2:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone | 50 min |
| Apr 8, 3:15 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Edmonson | 30 min |
| Apr 8, 3:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 32 min |
| Apr 8, 3:39 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Barren | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 3:57 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Green, Metcalfe | 23 min |
| Apr 8, 2:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Boyle, Mercer | 22 min |
| Apr 8, 6:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton | 37 min |
| Apr 8, 6:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 36 min |
| Apr 8, 6:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 33 min |
| Apr 8, 7:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | McCracken | 24 min |
| Apr 8, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston | 44 min |
| Apr 8, 7:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Fulton, Hickman | 31 min |
| Apr 8, 8:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 41 min |
| Apr 13, 10:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 12:55 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 35 min |
| Apr 16, 4:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Todd | 18 min |
| Apr 16, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan, Warren | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 5:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Allen, Barren | 46 min |
| Apr 16, 6:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 31 min |
| Apr 16, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair | 30 min |
| Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 43 min |
| Apr 16, 6:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 68 min |
| Apr 16, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 7:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Harlan | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Rockcastle | 49 min |
| Apr 16, 7:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary | 37 min |
| Apr 16, 7:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Jackson | 64 min |
| Apr 16, 7:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Whitley | 47 min |
| Apr 16, 8:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski | 63 min |
| Apr 16, 8:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Owsley | 50 min |
| Apr 16, 9:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Clinton | 36 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Wayne County4
- Pulaski County3
- Crittenden County3
- Clinton County2
- McCreary County2
- Whitley County2
- Logan County2
- Barren County2
- Fulton County2
- Livingston County2
- Adair County2
- Cumberland County1
- Monroe County1
- Powell County1
- Knox County1
- Boone County1
- Edmonson County1
- Hart County1
- Green County1
- Metcalfe County1
- Boyle County1
- Mercer County1
- Daviess County1
- McCracken County1
- Hickman County1
- Union County1
- Todd County1
- Warren County1
- Allen County1
- Harlan County1
- Rockcastle County1
- Jackson County1
- Owsley County1
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.