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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2016

78 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
78
Busiest month
May36 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 10, 201626 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 2, 4:35 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg40 min
Feb 2, 5:15 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg30 min
Mar 27, 8:17 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian28 min
Mar 27, 8:34 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg26 min
Mar 27, 8:59 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg16 min
Mar 31, 4:43 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKShelby, Spencer17 min
Apr 26, 6:56 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHHenderson21 min
Apr 27, 5:19 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, Muhlenberg26 min
Apr 27, 5:36 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg24 min
Apr 27, 5:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, Muhlenberg30 min
Apr 27, 5:52 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, Webster23 min
Apr 27, 6:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKOhio29 min
Apr 27, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg28 min
Apr 27, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMcLean, Webster30 min
Apr 27, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, McLean15 min
Apr 27, 7:10 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess, McLean20 min
Apr 27, 7:17 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess, McLean13 min
Apr 27, 7:33 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess12 min
Apr 27, 7:45 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHDaviess30 min
May 10, 2:10 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess35 min
May 10, 2:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHancock, Ohio28 min
May 10, 2:37 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hancock23 min
May 10, 2:59 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge31 min
May 10, 3:19 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hardin26 min
May 10, 3:46 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHGraves29 min
May 10, 4:07 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHCalloway, Graves, Marshall23 min
May 10, 4:30 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHLyon, Marshall, Trigg45 min
May 10, 5:05 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster25 min
May 10, 5:11 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Lyon, Trigg34 min
May 10, 5:37 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg23 min
May 10, 5:42 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, McLean33 min
May 10, 5:55 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHart20 min
May 10, 5:59 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg46 min
May 10, 6:20 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess, McLean, Muhlenberg29 min
May 10, 6:24 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKOhio36 min
May 10, 6:44 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHMuhlenberg31 min
May 10, 6:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHUnion33 min
May 10, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKCasey, Lincoln, Taylor15 min
May 10, 7:00 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHMuhlenberg18 min
May 10, 7:01 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKOhio13 min
May 10, 7:11 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHUnion34 min
May 10, 7:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson, Ohio28 min
May 10, 7:32 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden28 min
May 10, 7:36 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian39 min
May 10, 7:40 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson20 min
May 10, 8:01 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Trigg29 min
May 10, 8:14 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian46 min
May 10, 8:28 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHChristian, Trigg47 min
May 10, 8:41 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Trigg34 min
May 10, 8:51 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKCasey, Russell24 min
May 10, 8:52 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHChristian23 min
May 10, 9:08 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHChristian14 min
May 10, 9:44 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian31 min
May 10, 10:05 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLWayne31 min
May 10, 10:06 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLPulaski, Rockcastle24 min
Jun 23, 2:17 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXLawrence28 min
Jun 23, 4:38 PM EDTTornado WarningILNOwen22 min
Jun 23, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKScott21 min
Jun 23, 4:56 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKScott19 min
Jun 23, 5:07 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKScott23 min
Jun 23, 5:21 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLElliott, Johnson24 min
Jun 23, 9:28 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBarren, Edmonson, Warren17 min
Jul 3, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster33 min
Jul 3, 7:50 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway25 min
Jul 3, 8:27 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Hardin18 min
Jul 4, 3:27 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair, Taylor18 min
Jul 4, 3:41 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair, Casey19 min
Jul 4, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLFloyd26 min
Oct 19, 6:35 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBoone, Gallatin, Kenton25 min
Oct 19, 7:10 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBoone, Campbell, Kenton, Pendleton35 min
Dec 17, 3:39 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden, Hopkins, Webster36 min
Dec 17, 3:41 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg34 min
Dec 17, 4:02 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKOhio13 min
Dec 17, 4:06 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHFulton24 min
Dec 17, 4:19 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHDaviess, McLean26 min
Dec 17, 4:23 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson, Ohio22 min
Dec 17, 4:39 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson, Ohio21 min
Dec 26, 4:03 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHGraves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall16 min

By county

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

8 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. May 10, 201626tornado warnings
  2. April 27, 201612tornado warnings
  3. May 11, 201610tornado warnings
  4. December 17, 20167tornado warnings
  5. June 23, 20166tornado warnings
  6. July 4, 20164tornado warnings
  7. March 28, 20163tornado warnings
  8. February 2, 20162tornado warnings
  9. July 3, 20162tornado warnings
  10. October 19, 20162tornado warnings
  11. March 31, 20161tornado warnings
  12. April 26, 20161tornado 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.