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EF1 tornado in Clark County, Kentucky

Tornado April 2, 2024 · Clark County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
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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 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

Tornado damage appeared to have started to a barn and some trees across a field from each other west of Combs Ferry Road. The tornado continued southeast towards homes on a family's property. Trees were downed here with some outfieldings' roofs damaged.

Residents of one home said a set of 2nd story windows popped out and fell to the ground. Another nearby resident said all the interior doors of their home opened up as the tornado passed by. A security camera video showed a white intense area of rainfall

moving across the property in an area where a row of trees ended up getting snapped. The tornado continued east southeastward toward a home near the intersection of Jones Nursery Road and Combs Ferry Road. The resident was in a nearby attached garage when it went through. He witnessed the rains going in one direction before the tornado hit and then switch quickly to a different direction behind it. One section of the main home's roof was completely taken off and thrown east southeast. The wind hit the west-facing garage doors flush, causing both doors to buckle but not collapse. The brick work in between the doors was buckled as well. No further damage was noted southeast of this property, so the tornado appeared to have lifted by this point. There were several trees downed on the south side of the tornado, likely with strong inflow winds. Jones Nursery Road had trees down all along the road, but most of the damage had been cleaned up before the survey occurred.

The wider storm

As a surface low cut across Missouri and Illinois, its eastward stretching warm front moved north across central Indiana while its cold front moved east towards the Lower Ohio Valley. This placed central Kentucky in the warm sector, where 3 separate lines of convection moved through during the day. The first line of storms generating from an early morning outflow boundary dropped southeast through the area. This produced six tornadoes, mainly through the Bluegrass region. The second line, moving west to east, just produced some passing showers and thunderstorms. The third line, just ahead of the cold front, moved through during the evening hours. This produced three more tornadoes along the Interstate 71 corridor. One of these tornadoes began in Clark County, Indiana before crossing the Ohio River into Kentucky.

Began near Becknerville (37.9754, -84.3056).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1176387. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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