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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, 2021

72 tornado warnings in 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 72
Busiest month: December52 tornado warnings
Busiest day: December 11, 202146 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 28, 7:45 AM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Lyon, Marshall, Trigg	9 min
Mar 25, 9:08 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Butler, Grayson, Ohio	37 min
Mar 25, 10:21 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Grayson, Hardin, Larue	24 min
Mar 25, 10:45 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Hardin, Larue, Nelson	30 min
Mar 25, 10:57 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clinton	15 min
Mar 25, 11:03 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion, Nelson, Washington	27 min
Mar 25, 11:06 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	24 min
Mar 25, 11:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	Pulaski, Wayne	12 min
May 3, 9:30 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Adair, Cumberland, Russell	30 min
May 4, 4:59 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves	31 min
May 4, 6:14 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Muhlenberg, Todd	21 min
May 4, 8:14 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Marion, Washington	31 min
Jun 18, 9:11 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	34 min
Jul 11, 3:40 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Todd	35 min
Jul 29, 10:20 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	RLX	Carter	25 min
Jul 30, 4:16 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Whitley	29 min
Oct 6, 6:29 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Lincoln	31 min
Oct 6, 6:58 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	LMK	Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln	32 min
Oct 15, 3:33 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	PAH	Graves	12 min
Oct 15, 11:34 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ILN	Boone, Kenton	26 min
Dec 5, 9:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon	11 min
Dec 6, 4:28 AM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves	32 min
Dec 6, 5:41 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	PAH	Todd	19 min
Dec 6, 5:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	17 min
Dec 6, 5:47 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Logan	28 min
Dec 10, 6:28 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Calloway, Graves, Marshall	47 min
Dec 10, 8:12 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	48 min
Dec 10, 8:48 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	57 min
Dec 10, 9:19 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	41 min
Dec 10, 9:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Trigg	34 min
Dec 10, 9:29 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Fulton, Hickman	61 min
Dec 10, 9:32 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	30 min
Dec 10, 9:48 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	42 min
Dec 10, 10:05 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Graves, Marshall	40 min
Dec 10, 10:21 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Ohio	39 min
Dec 10, 10:25 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	20 min
Dec 10, 10:26 PM EST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Graves	9 min
Dec 10, 10:37 PM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	17 min
Dec 10, 10:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Graves, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall	50 min
Dec 10, 10:45 PM EST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Marshall	15 min
Dec 10, 11:09 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Christian, Hopkins, Lyon	51 min
Dec 10, 11:17 PM EST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Caldwell	13 min
Dec 10, 11:30 PM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Crittenden, Livingston	45 min
Dec 10, 11:31 PM EST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Caldwell, Hopkins	29 min
Dec 10, 11:36 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Hopkins, McLean, Muhlenberg	39 min
Dec 10, 11:42 PM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LMK	Ohio	63 min
Dec 10, 11:44 PM EST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	Hopkins, Muhlenberg	31 min
Dec 10, 11:58 PM EST	Tornado Warning EmergencyTornado observedCatastrophic damage threat	PAH	McLean, Muhlenberg	17 min
Dec 11, 12:07 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Grayson, Hancock	53 min
Dec 11, 12:17 AM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Webster	28 min
Dec 11, 12:37 AM EST	Tornado Warning	PAH	Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster	34 min
Dec 11, 12:40 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Calloway	15 min
Dec 11, 12:51 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	LMK	Breckinridge, Hardin, Meade	39 min
Dec 11, 1:03 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Christian, Trigg	42 min
Dec 11, 1:29 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threat	PAH	Todd	21 min
Dec 11, 1:36 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Logan, Simpson	39 min
Dec 11, 1:44 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Bullitt, Nelson, Shelby, Spencer	46 min
Dec 11, 1:58 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Butler, Edmonson, Logan, Simpson, Warren	47 min
Dec 11, 2:27 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, Warren	48 min
Dec 11, 2:28 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Franklin, Scott	20 min
Dec 11, 2:55 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Barren, Green, Hart, Larue, Marion, Metcalfe and 1 more	50 min
Dec 11, 3:16 AM EST	Tornado Warning	ILN	Bracken, Mason, Robertson	29 min
Dec 11, 3:22 AM EST	Tornado Warning Tornado observed	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Larue, Lincoln, Marion, Mercer and 1 more	38 min
Dec 11, 3:59 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Boyle, Casey, Garrard, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison and 1 more	46 min
Dec 11, 5:01 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Garrard, Madison	18 min
Dec 11, 5:13 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Estill, Lee, Montgomery, Powell	17 min
Dec 11, 5:23 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Clark, Garrard, Lincoln, Madison	37 min
Dec 11, 5:27 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Cumberland, Monroe	33 min
Dec 11, 5:43 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Estill, Powell	32 min
Dec 11, 5:52 AM EST	Tornado Warning	LMK	Casey, Clinton, Cumberland, Russell	23 min
Dec 11, 5:56 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	McCreary, Wayne	19 min
Dec 11, 6:53 AM EST	Tornado Warning	JKL	Knox, Whitley	22 min

By county

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

32 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.