EF1 tornado in Bourbon County, Kentucky
Tornado April 2, 2024 · Bourbon County, Kentucky
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Bourbon County → Clark County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This fairly long-tornado, for a squall line, started off as a trio of funnels that merged into one tornado at touchdown, per eyewitness accounts on a farm off Bethlehem Road. Multiple structures on the farm had damage. The tornado continued east
southeast thru rural parts of southern Bourbon County with few roads to gain good access to damage, but there were some trees down in Sidville and south of Escondida. The most extensive and widespread damage occurred at Hidden Rose Farm. A lot of people had gathered to fix the damage, but evidence of the tornado still was clear. An open arena structure almost totally collapsed, with one wall standing. Another downstream stable had roof damage including a 4x6 wood beam that was lodged in the metal roof, though that roof was fixed by the time of the survey. Multiple trailers were flipped as well. 2 horses were taken to the animal hospital and 4 others had lacerations. The tornado continued southeast to a large property off the 6700 block of Paris Rd, in far north Clark County. In total the tornado covered 13.44 miles.
This EF1 tornado covered 13.44 miles in total.
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 Monterey (38.1471, -84.3042).
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 1176612. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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