Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings / 2016
Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, May 2016
36 tornado warnings in May 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 May 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 36
- Busiest day
- May 10, 201626 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess | 35 min |
| May 10, 2:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hancock, Ohio | 28 min |
| May 10, 2:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hancock | 23 min |
| May 10, 2:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge | 31 min |
| May 10, 3:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Hardin | 26 min |
| May 10, 3:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves | 29 min |
| May 10, 4:07 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 23 min |
| May 10, 4:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Lyon, Marshall, Trigg | 45 min |
| May 10, 5:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Hopkins, Webster | 25 min |
| May 10, 5:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon, Trigg | 34 min |
| May 10, 5:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg | 23 min |
| May 10, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins, McLean | 33 min |
| May 10, 5:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Hart | 20 min |
| May 10, 5:59 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 46 min |
| May 10, 6:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, McLean, Muhlenberg | 29 min |
| May 10, 6:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 36 min |
| May 10, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 31 min |
| May 10, 6:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 33 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Lincoln, Taylor | 15 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 18 min |
| May 10, 7:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Ohio | 13 min |
| May 10, 7:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 34 min |
| May 10, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson, Ohio | 28 min |
| May 10, 7:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden | 28 min |
| May 10, 7:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian | 39 min |
| May 10, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Grayson | 20 min |
| May 10, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 29 min |
| May 10, 8:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 46 min |
| May 10, 8:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 47 min |
| May 10, 8:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 34 min |
| May 10, 8:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Casey, Russell | 24 min |
| May 10, 8:52 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 23 min |
| May 10, 9:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 14 min |
| May 10, 9:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 31 min |
| May 10, 10:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Wayne | 31 min |
| May 10, 10:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Rockcastle | 24 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Christian County10
- Trigg County6
- Breckinridge County5
- Ohio County4
- Caldwell County4
- Hopkins County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Daviess County2
- Hancock County2
- Graves County2
- Marshall County2
- Lyon County2
- Crittenden County2
- McLean County2
- Union County2
- Casey County2
- Grayson County2
- Hardin County1
- Calloway County1
- Webster County1
- Hart County1
- Lincoln County1
- Taylor County1
- Russell County1
- Wayne County1
- Pulaski County1
- Rockcastle 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. Rebuilt daily.