Tornado, Boone
- When
- July 13, 2:30 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 433 yd
- Injuries
- 12 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 38.830, -84.630
Tornadoes in Kentucky, July 13, 1956
4 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 12
- Property damage
- $2.6 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Bath
- When
- July 13, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Bath County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 38.200, -84.000
Tornado, Fayette
- When
- July 13, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Fayette County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.130, -84.420
Tornado, Montgomery
- When
- July 13, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.100, -83.900
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 13, 1956
- Tornadoes in New Jersey, July 13, 1956
- Tornado in Louisiana, July 13, 1956
- Tornado in Tennessee, July 13, 1956
- Hail in Montana, July 13, 1956
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, July 13, 1956
- Hail in Georgia, July 13, 1956
- Hail in Idaho, July 13, 1956
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 13, 1956
- Tornado in Colorado, July 13, 1956
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10037022, 10037023, 10037024, 10037025.