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EF0 tornado in Carroll County, Kentucky

Tornado March 14, 2024 · Carroll County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
18.0 mi
Whole path
150 yd
Path width
2
Injuries
$320K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jefferson County, Indiana → Trimble County → Carroll County → Jefferson County, Indiana → Switzerland County, Indiana → Carroll County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

The tornado first developed in Jefferson County, Indiana, at 1258EST, on the north side of Hanover. The tornado moved east across the Ohio River into Trimble County, Kentucky, and then into Carroll County, Kentucky, at 1308EST. The tornado moved across the Ohio River again and back into Jefferson County, Indiana, and then Switzerland County, Indiana, before crossing the Ohio River one more time and moving back into Carroll County, Kentucky, at 1322EST, just east of Carrollton on US 42. The tornado was very narrow at this point and produced some sporadic tree damage before ending at 1324EST. Wind speeds were estimated to be around 75 mph, EF-0. The Kentucky Mesonet site 2E of Carrollton measured 68 mph as the weakening tornado lifted.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed in an unseasonably warm and humid airmass ahead of an approaching cold front.

Began near Prestonville (38.6927, -85.1549).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1164886. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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