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EF1 tornado in Mason County, Kentucky

Tornado April 12, 2024 · Mason County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 first and primary visible damage of the tornado occurred at a property just off North Knoweshaw Road, near the intersection of the AA Highway. Here, notable damage occurred to an outbuilding, with a complete collapse of the wall structures. There were several trees that were broken and uprooted on this property as well, but the damage to the outbuilding was just enough to classify this tornado as an EF-1, with wind speeds estimated around 90 mph.

Video footage was captured of this tornado crossing the AA Highway. The only other damage that occurred was at a property just on the south side of the AA Highway after the tornado crossed it. The primary damage here was hardwood trees that were broken. One of the windows was broken at the dwelling on this property as well. After this property, no other damage was reported, but there was insulation and other debris that was thrown across the fields southeast of this property, with the last known debris found at a nearby landfill. No property damage was observed at the landfill.

The wider storm

Showers and a few thunderstorms developed along a cold front that moved through the Ohio Valley.

Began near Somo (38.5995, -83.7325).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1172197. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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