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Heritage Archive/Every tornado recorded in Meade County since 1974

Every tornado recorded in Meade County since 1974

document2010 (2017)Meade County, Kentucky

The National Weather Service has logged eleven more tornadoes in Meade County in the fifty years since the 1974 F5. None has killed anyone.

June 13, 1987 (F1) · July 18, 1988 (F1) · May 5, 1996 (F1, ten injured, from north of Ekron to southeast of Brandenburg) · April 28, 2002 (F2, seven injured, 2:05 in the morning) · October 18, 2007 (EF1) · February 5, 2008 (EF1, six and a half miles) · April 19, 2011 (EF0, skipping eleven miles) · March 2, 2012 (EF0) · January 30, 2013 (EF0) · July 10, 2015 (EF0) · November 18, 2017 (EF1, one injured).

The pattern worth noticing: two of these came in the small hours, when nobody is watching a radar.

Source
Verified against NOAA / National Weather Service, Louisville — Meade County tornado climatology https://www.weather.gov/lmk/tornado_climatology_meade Licence: Public domain (17 U.S.C. § 105) Wording original — facts are not copyrightable (Feist v. Rural Telephone, 1991).
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