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EF1 tornado in Woodford County, Kentucky

Tornado April 2, 2024 · Woodford County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
1.8 mi
Whole path
300 yd
Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Woodford County → Jessamine County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 tornado first touched down causing roof damage to two barns just west of Pinckard Pike before the Woodford/Jessamine border. The owner was in the house northeast of those barns and witnessed the roofs peeling off towards the northeast and then saw them change direction, taking a hard right. A tree north of the property fell towards the south and a home on the north side had a window broken by debris travelling north. The southern barn had its southern wall partially thrown to the south and a stone

culvert had a few stones pushed south as well. Across the street from this barn several trees were downed and in a somewhat convergent pattern. A garage door was blown out and the south facing wall got pushed outward. The tornado traveled south southeastward with more tree damage noted along Pinckard Pike before the tornado crossed into Jessamine County. The total path length of the EF1 tornado which began in Woodford County and ended in Jessamine County was 1.82 miles.

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 Pinckard (37.9810, -84.6843).

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 1176622. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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