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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2003

70 tornado warnings in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
70
Busiest month
May43 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 5, 200317 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
Feb 22, 4:10 PM ESTTornado WarningILNLewis50 min
Feb 22, 5:58 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLMartin32 min
Feb 22, 6:22 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLetcher, Pike53 min
Feb 22, 6:24 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLetcher, Pike51 min
Mar 19, 3:35 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLMcCreary25 min
Mar 19, 3:40 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLMcCreary20 min
Mar 19, 4:12 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLaurel18 min
Mar 19, 4:20 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLaurel10 min
Mar 19, 4:27 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLLaurel, Rockcastle18 min
Mar 19, 4:49 PM ESTTornado WarningJKLJackson, Owsley26 min
Apr 20, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian32 min
Apr 20, 4:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg47 min
Apr 20, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson30 min
Apr 20, 6:27 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess33 min
Apr 25, 5:12 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMarshall33 min
Apr 25, 5:16 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMarshall29 min
Apr 25, 5:32 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHLyon43 min
May 4, 10:25 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHBallard50 min
May 4, 10:40 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMcCracken50 min
May 4, 10:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHLivingston47 min
May 4, 11:07 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway38 min
May 4, 11:13 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHGraves32 min
May 4, 11:23 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden37 min
May 4, 11:24 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHUnion36 min
May 4, 11:55 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHWebster35 min
May 4, 11:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHTrigg48 min
May 5, 12:18 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway57 min
May 5, 12:33 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess, McLean42 min
May 5, 12:36 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Todd54 min
May 5, 1:38 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBoyle, Marion52 min
May 5, 2:52 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLEstill, Jackson38 min
May 5, 3:38 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLee, Owsley37 min
May 5, 5:16 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLaurel, Pulaski44 min
May 5, 6:05 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLClay, Laurel40 min
May 6, 10:33 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHBallard42 min
May 6, 11:05 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHLivingston55 min
May 6, 11:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden45 min
May 6, 11:54 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHBallard51 min
May 7, 12:09 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHGraves, McCracken36 min
May 7, 12:16 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHUnion44 min
May 7, 12:21 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHLivingston39 min
May 7, 12:47 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHMarshall28 min
May 7, 12:48 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden27 min
May 7, 12:59 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson61 min
May 7, 1:03 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHLyon, Trigg42 min
May 7, 1:08 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins37 min
May 7, 1:53 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess52 min
May 8, 8:44 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge46 min
May 10, 4:45 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLewis, Mason30 min
May 10, 5:15 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLewis30 min
May 10, 5:41 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXGreenup34 min
May 10, 6:00 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBath, Montgomery60 min
May 10, 6:14 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXGreenup31 min
May 11, 1:32 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHWebster28 min
May 11, 2:03 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins17 min
May 11, 2:08 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHMcLean37 min
May 11, 2:14 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg46 min
May 11, 4:06 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKHardin24 min
May 11, 4:54 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKHart36 min
May 11, 5:27 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKMercer18 min
Jul 10, 3:17 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLewis43 min
Jul 10, 9:28 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBoyle, Mercer47 min
Jul 21, 2:30 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHTodd30 min
Jul 21, 2:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHTodd33 min
Aug 22, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKEdmonson18 min
Aug 22, 7:06 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBarren29 min
Aug 22, 7:07 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKWarren28 min
Aug 22, 9:15 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway, Marshall30 min
Aug 22, 9:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway30 min
Nov 18, 9:49 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHCalloway41 min

By county

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

5 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 5, 200317tornado warnings
  2. May 7, 200313tornado warnings
  3. May 11, 20037tornado warnings
  4. March 19, 20036tornado warnings
  5. May 10, 20035tornado warnings
  6. February 22, 20034tornado warnings
  7. April 20, 20034tornado warnings
  8. April 25, 20033tornado warnings
  9. August 22, 20033tornado warnings
  10. July 21, 20032tornado warnings
  11. August 23, 20032tornado warnings
  12. May 9, 20031tornado 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.