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EF1 tornado in Jessamine County, Kentucky

Tornado April 2, 2024 · Jessamine 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

After the tornado crossed into Jessamine County from Woodford County, the tornado took a bit of left turn towards a property where it caused damage to multiple structures. Two barns were demolished and another had significant roof damage. One barn was pushed in two directions off its stone foundation. The damage path for part of the barn went to the southeast and another part went farther downstream to the northeast. The tornado broke a couple more limbs before lifting. The EF1 tornado was on the ground for a total of 1.82 miles from where it began in Woodford County and ended in Jessamine County.

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 Dixon Town (37.9680, -84.6730).

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 1176624. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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