Tornado, Logan
- When
- November 7, 1:35 PM EST to 1:55 PM EST
- Where
- Logan County, Adairville to Auburn
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 36.670, -86.850
Tornado in Kentucky, November 7, 1996
A weak F0 tornado touched down just northwest of Adairville and traveled around 10 miles northeast to just southwest of Auburn. As the tornado moved across the Logan county airport, about 7 miles northeast of Adairville, it did an estimated 500K worth of damage to airplanes.
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
- $500,000
- 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.
A weak F0 tornado touched down just northwest of Adairville and traveled around 10 miles northeast to just southwest of Auburn. As the tornado moved across the Logan county airport, about 7 miles northeast of Adairville, it did an estimated 500K worth of damage to airplanes. At least 5 airplanes were damaged beyond repair. Along the rest of the path, there were trees down but eyewitnesses reported the tornado lifting at times.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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 Ohio, November 7, 1996
- Tornado in Georgia, November 7, 1996
- Ice Storm in Alaska, November 7, 1996
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- Damaging Wind in Texas, November 7, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, November 7, 1996
More
Every storm in Kentucky in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Kentucky, 1996Warnings in Kentucky, November 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: 5572157.