Alert archive / Kentucky / Tornado Warnings / 2026
Tornado Warnings in Kentucky, August 2026
32 tornado warnings in August 2026. 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 August 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 32
- Busiest day
- August 11, 202619 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 7:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Owen | 32 min |
| Aug 1, 7:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton | 33 min |
| Aug 1, 8:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Kenton | 34 min |
| Aug 11, 3:06 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone | 24 min |
| Aug 11, 3:24 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Kenton | 36 min |
| Aug 11, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Campbell, Kenton | 29 min |
| Aug 11, 3:51 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Boone, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Pendleton | 24 min |
| Aug 11, 3:55 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Bracken, Campbell, Kenton, Pendleton | 35 min |
| Aug 11, 4:10 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Grant, Pendleton | 20 min |
| Aug 11, 4:19 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis, Mason | 26 min |
| Aug 11, 4:20 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | LMK | Bourbon, Harrison, Nicholas, Scott | 40 min |
| Aug 11, 4:22 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Bracken, Pendleton, Robertson | 23 min |
| Aug 11, 4:28 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 32 min |
| Aug 11, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Bath, Montgomery | 30 min |
| Aug 11, 5:01 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Lewis | 15 min |
| Aug 11, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott, Fleming, Morgan, Rowan | 27 min |
| Aug 11, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Carter, Lawrence | 42 min |
| Aug 11, 5:25 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Greenup | 20 min |
| Aug 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Elliott | 14 min |
| Aug 11, 5:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Menifee, Morgan, Wolfe | 14 min |
| Aug 11, 5:42 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Wolfe | 18 min |
| Aug 11, 6:05 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Breathitt, Perry, Pike | 70 min |
| Aug 15, 6:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Montgomery, Powell | 25 min |
| Aug 16, 6:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Boyd, Carter, Lawrence | 28 min |
| Aug 16, 6:44 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Carter, Lawrence | 31 min |
| Aug 16, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | RLX | Lawrence | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 7:50 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | JKL | Martin | 24 min |
| Aug 20, 12:46 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken | 29 min |
| Aug 20, 1:12 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Graves, Marshall | 34 min |
| Aug 20, 1:31 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle | 13 min |
| Aug 20, 1:36 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Calloway, Marshall, Trigg | 31 min |
| Aug 20, 1:43 AM EDT | Tornado Warning | PAH | Ballard, Carlisle, Graves, McCracken | 20 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County6
- Kenton County6
- Gallatin County4
- Grant County4
- Pendleton County4
- Carter County4
- Lawrence County4
- Campbell County3
- Lewis County3
- Ballard County3
- Carlisle County3
- Graves County3
- Bracken County2
- Montgomery County2
- Elliott County2
- Morgan County2
- Boyd County2
- Wolfe County2
- Breathitt County2
- McCracken County2
- Calloway County2
- Marshall County2
- Carroll County1
- Owen County1
- Mason County1
- Bourbon County1
- Harrison County1
- Nicholas County1
- Scott County1
- Robertson County1
- Bath County1
- Fleming County1
- Rowan County1
- Greenup County1
- Menifee County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Powell County1
- Martin County1
- Trigg County1
Nearby
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.