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Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, May 2025

46 tornado warnings in May 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
46
Busiest day
May 17, 202528 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 8, 3:02 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCarlisle24 min
May 16, 4:57 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHBallard48 min
May 16, 5:27 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHBallard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken48 min
May 16, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCrittenden, Livingston, Lyon, McCracken, Marshall43 min
May 16, 6:32 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Crittenden, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon and 1 more43 min
May 16, 7:08 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Todd, Trigg52 min
May 16, 7:45 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHTodd30 min
May 16, 7:45 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedPAHBallard45 min
May 16, 7:48 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKLogan42 min
May 16, 7:56 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHUnion34 min
May 16, 8:09 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHBallard, Livingston, McCracken, Marshall26 min
May 16, 8:11 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatPAHHenderson, Union49 min
May 16, 8:23 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKButler, Logan, Warren52 min
May 16, 8:51 PM EDTTornado Warning Considerable damage threatPAHDaviess, Henderson, McLean, Webster39 min
May 16, 8:55 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBarren, Warren38 min
May 16, 9:13 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKHancock, Ohio47 min
May 16, 9:24 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair, Barren, Cumberland, Metcalfe51 min
May 16, 9:29 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHDaviess16 min
May 16, 9:37 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Christian, Trigg11 min
May 16, 9:51 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson, Hardin24 min
May 16, 9:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway, Marshall, Trigg34 min
May 16, 10:00 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLBath, Fleming, Montgomery, Rowan30 min
May 16, 10:05 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair, Russell40 min
May 16, 10:12 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKBreckinridge, Grayson, Hardin, Hart, Larue33 min
May 16, 10:20 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Trigg25 min
May 16, 10:26 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLElliott, Rowan34 min
May 16, 10:29 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLPulaski, Wayne46 min
May 16, 10:54 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Logan, Simpson, Warren36 min
May 16, 10:55 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLElliott20 min
May 16, 10:57 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedJKLPulaski32 min
May 16, 11:07 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatJKLKnox, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle53 min
May 16, 11:21 PM EDTTornado WarningLMKAllen, Monroe, Simpson, Warren24 min
May 16, 11:42 PM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatJKLClay, Knox, Laurel, Leslie, Owsley48 min
May 16, 11:48 PM EDTTornado WarningJKLLaurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle27 min
May 17, 12:07 AM EDTTornado WarningJKLClay, Jackson, Laurel, Pulaski, Rockcastle53 min
May 17, 12:09 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKAdair, Russell21 min
May 17, 12:17 AM EDTTornado Warning Tornado observedConsiderable damage threatJKLClay, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Perry43 min
May 17, 12:25 AM EDTTornado WarningJKLMcCreary, Pulaski, Wayne12 min
May 20, 4:57 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway, Graves, Marshall12 min
May 20, 5:01 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCaldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, Lyon16 min
May 20, 5:21 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHCalloway13 min
May 20, 6:15 PM EDTTornado WarningPAHChristian, Todd30 min
May 30, 5:22 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKGreen, Hart, Larue38 min
May 30, 6:03 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKGreen, Larue, Marion, Taylor27 min
May 30, 6:49 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKBoyle, Marion, Mercer, Washington26 min
May 30, 7:21 AM EDTTornado WarningLMKGarrard, Jessamine, Mercer24 min

By county

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

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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.