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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, May 2022
18 tornado warnings in May 2022. 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 2022. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 18
- Busiest day
- May 19, 20227 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 6, 1:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell | 36 min |
| May 6, 1:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 16 min |
| May 6, 3:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Clay, Jackson, Owsley | 26 min |
| May 6, 3:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Owsley, Perry | 25 min |
| May 6, 3:45 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Owsley | 30 min |
| May 18, 8:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Laurel, Pulaski | 29 min |
| May 18, 8:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Pulaski, Wayne | 28 min |
| May 18, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, Pulaski, Whitley | 34 min |
| May 18, 8:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | McCreary, Pulaski, Whitley | 23 min |
| May 18, 9:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Knox, Whitley | 26 min |
| May 19, 4:36 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Breckinridge, Meade | 39 min |
| May 19, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 27 min |
| May 26, 4:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell | 29 min |
| May 26, 4:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Garrard, Lincoln | 27 min |
| May 26, 5:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan, Knox | 33 min |
| May 26, 5:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Madison | 26 min |
| May 26, 5:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Estill, Jackson, Powell | 32 min |
| May 26, 5:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Fleming | 36 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bell County5
- Pulaski County4
- Harlan County3
- Jackson County3
- Owsley County3
- Knox County3
- Whitley County3
- Clay County2
- Breathitt County2
- Laurel County2
- Perry County1
- Wayne County1
- McCreary County1
- Breckinridge County1
- Meade County1
- Garrard County1
- Lincoln County1
- Madison County1
- Estill County1
- Powell County1
- Fleming 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.