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EF0 tornado in Christian County, Kentucky

Tornado April 13, 2022 · Christian County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 witness reported a brief tornado touchdown in a field. Some items were tossed around in the witness's back yard.

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 Era (37.0107, -87.5425).

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 Hopkins County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1013326. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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