Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings / 2024
Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, May 2024
56 tornado warnings in May 2024. 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 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 56
- Busiest day
- May 27, 202422 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 7, 8:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 50 min |
| May 7, 8:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Meade | 34 min |
| May 7, 9:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Greenup | 18 min |
| May 8, 1:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Todd | 29 min |
| May 8, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Logan | 17 min |
| May 8, 2:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall | 16 min |
| May 8, 4:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Trigg | 40 min |
| May 8, 4:56 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Trigg | 14 min |
| May 8, 5:18 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union | 27 min |
| May 8, 5:23 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Christian | 37 min |
| May 8, 5:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Union, Webster | 46 min |
| May 8, 6:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 19 min |
| May 8, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston | 14 min |
| May 8, 7:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Adair, Casey, Russell, Taylor | 17 min |
| May 8, 10:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman | 35 min |
| May 8, 11:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Carlisle, Graves, Hickman | 26 min |
| May 8, 11:32 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves | 43 min |
| May 8, 11:54 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 29 min |
| May 26, 9:08 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, Hickman | 20 min |
| May 26, 9:17 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 17 min |
| May 26, 9:33 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway | 13 min |
| May 26, 9:37 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall, Trigg | 38 min |
| May 26, 9:44 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon | 31 min |
| May 26, 10:00 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian | 26 min |
| May 26, 10:13 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Todd | 23 min |
| May 26, 10:16 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Christian, Todd | 20 min |
| May 26, 10:19 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 26 min |
| May 26, 10:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Logan, Simpson, Warren | 35 min |
| May 26, 12:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 25 min |
| May 26, 1:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Knox, Laurel, Whitley | 31 min |
| May 26, 1:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Whitley | 24 min |
| May 26, 2:15 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Harlan | 30 min |
| May 26, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Graves, McCracken | 35 min |
| May 26, 8:16 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Livingston, Lyon, Marshall | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Union | 34 min |
| May 26, 8:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, McLean, Union, Webster | 44 min |
| May 26, 8:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon | 40 min |
| May 26, 8:47 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Crittenden, Lyon | 28 min |
| May 26, 8:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Henderson, Union | 39 min |
| May 26, 9:02 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Daviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster | 43 min |
| May 26, 9:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:11 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Lyon | 22 min |
| May 26, 9:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Hopkins | 51 min |
| May 26, 9:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell | 15 min |
| May 26, 9:38 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Caldwell, Hopkins | 22 min |
| May 26, 10:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins | 29 min |
| May 26, 10:04 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Hopkins, Muhlenberg | 56 min |
| May 26, 10:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 27 min |
| May 26, 10:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Muhlenberg | 25 min |
| May 26, 10:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler | 20 min |
| May 26, 11:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Todd | 11 min |
| May 26, 11:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Butler, Warren | 31 min |
| May 26, 11:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bullitt, Hardin, Nelson, Spencer | 23 min |
| May 27, 2:25 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 20 min |
| May 27, 2:40 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bell, Knox, Whitley | 20 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Graves County8
- Caldwell County8
- Marshall County6
- Lyon County6
- Christian County5
- Union County5
- Calloway County5
- Todd County4
- Livingston County4
- Crittenden County4
- Muhlenberg County4
- Whitley County4
- Bell County4
- Hopkins County4
- Trigg County3
- Webster County3
- Carlisle County3
- Hickman County3
- Butler County3
- Knox County3
- Henderson County3
- Logan County2
- McCracken County2
- Ballard County2
- Warren County2
- McLean County2
- Lewis County1
- Meade County1
- Greenup County1
- Adair County1
- Casey County1
- Russell County1
- Taylor County1
- Simpson County1
- Laurel County1
- Harlan County1
- Daviess County1
- Bullitt County1
- Hardin County1
- Nelson County1
1 more counties
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.