Tornado, Barren
- When
- April 20, 3:34 AM EST to 3:38 AM EST
- Where
- Barren County, Hiseville
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $40,000
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -85.800
Tornadoes in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
In Barren county, the Queens Chapel Church reported heavy damage, and buildings on Hwy. 314 also recieved damage.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $80,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LMK wrote it up.
In Barren county, the Queens Chapel Church reported heavy damage, and buildings on Hwy. 314 also recieved damage. The Spillman road area also reported heavy property damage. In Metcalfe county, the tornado desroyed a house-trailer on the Thurman Sexton road. Another trailer and several barns were destroyed.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Metcalfe
- When
- April 20, 3:38 AM EST to 3:40 AM EST
- Where
- Metcalfe County, Knob Lick to 3 mi NW of Knob Lick
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $40,000
- Coordinates
- 37.120, -85.720
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
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Tennessee, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, April 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, April 20, 1996
- Tornadoes in Tennessee, April 20, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 20, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, April 20, 1996
- Flood in Michigan, April 20 to 27, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, April 20, 1996
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kentucky, 1996Warnings in Kentucky, April 1996
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: 5547426, 5547427.