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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2020

46 tornado warnings in 2020. 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
46
Busiest month
March22 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 9, 20208 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
Jan 11, 6:45 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHLivingston, Lyon, Marshall17 min
Jan 11, 7:44 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHHenderson, Webster16 min
Jan 11, 7:49 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHCalloway, Trigg19 min
Jan 11, 8:01 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHTrigg29 min
Jan 11, 8:12 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Hopkins33 min
Jan 11, 8:23 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Trigg37 min
Jan 11, 8:40 AM ESTTornado WarningPAHChristian20 min
Mar 2, 8:20 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Trigg40 min
Mar 2, 8:55 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Hopkins35 min
Mar 2, 9:22 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Muhlenberg, Todd28 min
Mar 2, 9:30 PM ESTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan45 min
Mar 2, 11:30 PM ESTTornado WarningPAHFulton45 min
Mar 12, 5:33 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Edmonson, Grayson27 min
Mar 12, 5:58 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKEdmonson, Hart32 min
Mar 12, 7:59 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair, Casey, Taylor31 min
Mar 12, 10:29 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBell, McCreary, Whitley31 min
Mar 19, 9:09 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBoone21 min
Mar 20, 2:40 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHGraves, McCracken13 min
Mar 20, 3:54 AM EDTTornado WarningPAHHopkins, McLean, Webster21 min
Mar 20, 3:53 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLeslie, Owsley, Perry37 min
Mar 28, 7:18 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHFulton42 min
Mar 28, 7:42 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHBallard, McCracken33 min
Mar 28, 8:10 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston50 min
Mar 28, 8:23 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHBallard, McCracken22 min
Mar 28, 8:42 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHLivingston18 min
Mar 28, 8:51 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson, Union24 min
Mar 28, 8:58 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHHenderson47 min
Mar 28, 9:16 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess44 min
Mar 28, 10:02 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKMeade28 min
Apr 8, 2:10 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLElliott, Rowan35 min
Apr 8, 10:13 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBoone, Gallatin32 min
Apr 8, 10:28 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBoone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton32 min
Apr 8, 10:34 PM EDTTornado WarningILNCampbell, Kenton26 min
Apr 8, 10:48 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBracken, Campbell, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton22 min
Apr 8, 11:03 PM EDTTornado WarningILNBracken, Mason, Pendleton, Robertson31 min
Apr 8, 11:26 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKNelson, Washington20 min
Apr 8, 11:28 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLFleming, Rowan32 min
Apr 8, 11:44 PM EDTTornado WarningILNLewis20 min
Apr 25, 6:19 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBell, Clay, Harlan, Knox, Leslie26 min
May 3, 3:22 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCarlisle, Hickman23 min
May 3, 3:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHGraves15 min
Jun 10, 7:37 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXGreenup23 min
Jun 10, 8:35 PM EDTTornado WarningRLXGreenup9 min
Aug 28, 1:47 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLogan28 min
Sep 2, 9:17 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHart16 min
Oct 23, 4:21 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCarlisle, Graves, McCracken12 min

By county

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

16 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 9, 20208tornado warnings
  2. January 11, 20207tornado warnings
  3. March 29, 20207tornado warnings
  4. March 3, 20205tornado warnings
  5. March 20, 20204tornado warnings
  6. March 12, 20203tornado warnings
  7. March 28, 20202tornado warnings
  8. May 3, 20202tornado warnings
  9. March 13, 20201tornado warnings
  10. April 8, 20201tornado warnings
  11. April 25, 20201tornado warnings
  12. June 10, 20201tornado warnings

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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.