Tornado, Clinton
- When
- June 3, 9:10 PM EST to 9:12 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton County, Shipley
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.670, -85.220
Tornado in Kentucky, June 3, 1996
Police spotted a weak F0 tornado. The tornado touchdown was brief and DES reported several trees down.
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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Police spotted a weak F0 tornado. The tornado touchdown was brief and DES reported several trees down. NO property damage reported.
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 129 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:10 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 3, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 3, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 3, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, June 3, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, June 3, 1996
- Hail in Alabama, June 3, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, June 3, 1996
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kentucky, 1996Warnings in Kentucky, June 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: 5550212.