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EF0 tornado in Hopkins County, Kentucky

Tornado April 13, 2022 · Hopkins County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
$2K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

A weak tornado briefly touched down in a wooded area and snapped several small trees. Peak winds were estimated near 85 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 St Charles (37.1300, -87.5700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1012047. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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