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EF0 tornado in Hickman County, Kentucky

Tornado April 13, 2022 · Hickman County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
2.7 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$45K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Several farm outbuildings sustained partial or complete loss of metal roofing. A carport was damaged. Some trees were down. Peak winds were estimated around 80 mph.

The wider storm

A squall line of thunderstorms occurred ahead of a strong cold front that trailed southward from a low pressure center over the Great Lakes region. The squall line moved rapidly east-northeast from Arkansas and northwest Tennessee across southwest Kentucky. Pockets of minor to moderate wind damage occurred south of a line from Paducah to Madisonville to Owensboro. A few brief tornadoes accompanied meso-vortices within the line. Heavy rainfall associated with this system caused minor flooding on the Green River, along with a few flooded roads.

Began near Beelerton (36.6000, -88.8700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

6 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Graves CountyEF1 Trigg CountyEF0 Marshall CountyEF0 Marshall CountyEF0 Hopkins CountyEF0 Christian County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1012034. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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