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Tornado Warning — Hart, KY — Jul 21, 2026

NWS LMK · ETN 41 · National Weather Service warning
Tornado Warning for Hart — radar, warned-area polygon and storm motion
Radar-indicated position & projected track

Event Summary

The National Weather Service office LMK issued a tornado warning at 21:47 UTC on Jul 21, 2026 covering Hart, KY. The warning was in effect for 14 minutes, ending at Jul 21, 2026 22:01 UTC. At the last radar check, the storm was located near 37.28, -85.95, moving east-southeast at about 31 mph.

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Counties Affected

Storm Reports

TimeLocationCounty / StateEFRemarks
1 N Rowletts Hart, KY Unrated Time Estimated by Radar: Trees fell onto home... though no injuries reported from the damage. Near the 500 block of Rowletts-Cave Spring Road and the intersection with (LMK)
1 NNE Rowletts Hart, KY Unrated Time Estimated by Radar: Reported that a tornado struck the hit the Hart County Animal Shelter. (LMK)
2 SW Center Metcalfe, KY EF1° An EF-1 tornado occurred in northwestern Metcalfe County... near Knob Lick on July 21. The tornado produced high end EF1 damage near Pleasant Valley Church Road and lof (LMK)
1 ESE Wax Grayson, KY EF2° *** 1 INJ *** NWS Storm survey found an EF-2 tornado that tracked for 21 miles through eastern Grayson County into Hart County. (LMK)

Preliminary local storm reports (SPC) within the warned area window — subject to revision after NWS surveys. ° = rating parsed from the NWS damage-survey text quoted in the SPC report narrative (derived, not an official F-scale entry).

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