Tornado, McCracken
- When
- June 6, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCracken County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 7.4 mi
- Path width
- 67 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.970, -88.620
Tornadoes in Kentucky, June 6, 1966
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Madison
- When
- June 6, 12:40 PM CST
- Where
- Madison County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 11.1 mi
- Path width
- 167 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.980, -88.480
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 in Florida, June 6, 1966
- Hail in Massachusetts, June 6, 1966
- Damaging Winds in New York, June 6, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 6, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, June 6, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 6, 1966
- Hail in Connecticut, June 6, 1966
- Hail in West Virginia, June 6, 1966
- Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, June 6, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 6, 1966
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 1966Every state in 1966This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kentucky, 1966
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: 10035992, 10035993.