EF1 tornado in Hardin County, Kentucky
Tornado March 30, 2025 · Hardin County, Kentucky
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Meade County → Hardin County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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
The National Weather Service conducted a storm survey in Meade and Hardin County, near the communities of Flaherty and Radcliff, and determined an EF-1 tornado with maximum winds of 100 mph occurred the evening of March 30th, 2025. The tornado had a path length of 7.21 miles and a width of 50 yards.
After the tornado exited Meade County, the damage continued in neighborhoods in west Radcliff along Red Hill Road where isolated tree damage, both uproots and snaps, were observed. The last observable damage was near US Highway 31 where isolated tree damage was observed near Walmart in Radcliff.
The wider storm
On March 30th, a surface low along with the system's cold front dropped southeast from eastern Iowa through southern Indiana and central Kentucky. This resulted in a northeast to southwest oriented line of convection ahead of the front. The added shear from the surface low resulted in organized storms that produced damaging winds and 5 tornadoes throughout north central Kentucky. Wind damage continued farther east into the Bluegrass region, near Lexington.
Began near Red Hill (37.8460, -85.9920).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1247778. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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