EF0 tornado in Metcalfe County, Kentucky

Tornado July 9, 2024 · Metcalfe County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

0.9 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 tornadic circulation continued from Cumberland County into Metcalfe County, hugging the west side of Cedar Ridge just to the east of Ferris Creek Road and Earl Hurt Road. The tornado lifted about 1.9 miles north-northeast of Dubre at a residence

along Earl Hurt Road after uprooting several more trees that were

oriented in multiple directions. A drone was flown along the

western edge of the ridge line between the initial residence that

was impacted and the lifting point, and very little limb damage

was noted. It is likely that there was some terrain interaction

along the western edge of Cedar Ridge that helped with the

circulation. Overall, the EF0 tornado was on the ground for just

under 1 mile with a maximum path width of 200 yards. There was

additional straight-line wind damage consistent with 70 to 80 mph

winds that was noted right on Ferris Fork and Ferris Creek Roads

that all had east-northeasterly orientation and appears to be inflow into the

main tornadic circulation just a couple hundred yards to the east.

The wider storm

The remnants of Hurricane Beryl moved through the Ohio Valley on July 9th. While most of the showers and thunderstorms associated with the remnants of Beryl did not produce severe weather across central Kentucky, one cell in Cumberland and Metcalfe County produced a brief EF0 tornado, as well as some hail. Multiple reports of funnel clouds were also noted during the afternoon and evening hours on July 9th.

Began near Willow Shade (36.8570, -85.5480).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1206826. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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