EF1 Tornado — Harrison, Kentucky

2025-04-03 · near Rutland, Harrison, Kentucky

Event narrative

A storm damage team surveyed tornado damage in Harrison County, Kentucky near Berry and Antioch from the storms on April 3rd, 2025. Damage was first observed to a farm along Kentucky Highway 36 West near Casey Mill Road where a barn had some damage to the doors, roof and siding. The tornado continued along Casey Mill Road where a travel trailer was rolled upside down, but remained intact, and a residence had roof damage to one side of the home. Evidence of a tornadic circulation was noted here with boards impaled into the back side of the home from where the roof was torn off. The only possible explanation for this would be rotation, or if the boards came from a structure upstream.

The storm continued near Berry where several trees were uprooted. The storm continued across Eureka and Petty Roads where a camper was flipped and a barn was leaning to one side after the wind occurred. Just to the west of US Highway 27, and south of Antioch, a barn was leveled from the tornado. The maximum wind along the

path of this tornado was between 95 and 100 mph.

Wider weather episode

On the night of April 2nd, 2025, a cold front approached the lower Ohio Valley. Along and ahead of the cold front, numerous supercells developed over southern Illinois and western Kentucky. These storms tracked eastward and occasionally grew upscale into a QLCS with bowing segments. Storms lasted all night and into the morning hours, as the cold front began to stall over the lower Ohio Valley. These storms left behind a wake of damage in many counties in central Kentucky. Over the next few days, waves of showers and storms rode along the cold front bringing lots of rain which lead to widespread flash and areal flooding. Showers and storms came through daily, until the evening of April 6th. Later, this flooding turned into historic and near-record breaking river flooding along many river basins.

Overall, 6 tornadoes touched down from late evening into the overnight on April 2nd and 3rd, including one EF-3, one EF-2's, and four EF-1's. Many additional pockets of wind damage occurred, as well as widespread areal and flash flooding through late week into the weekend. Some river crests were historic, including a new record crest at Camp Nelson on the Kentucky River and the #2 all time crest at Frankfort. The crest at McAlpine Upper on the Ohio River was #8 all time.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1258710. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.