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EF0 tornado in Bracken County, Kentucky

Tornado September 22, 2025 · Bracken County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
4.1 mi
Path length
500 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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 first evidence of tornado damage was near Powersville, along the intersection of Powersville Willow and Brooksville Powersville Roads. At this location, several trees and large branches were downed. The tornado continued northeast from here, causing sporadic tree damage along its path.

More significant damage occurred just to the northwest of downtown Brooksville, along West Miami Street. Numerous trees were downed in this area and several homes had mainly minor roof and siding damage. One home at this location did have a large portion of its roof removed and this is where the strongest winds were estimated.

The tornado was captured on security video taken from both the Bracken County Middle School and the Bracken County High School. In the video taken from the high school, the tornado is clearly visible as it moved through the field south of Cooper Lane toward West Miami Street.

Beyond West Miami Street, the tornado moved northeast and continued to cause occasional minor tree and structural damage. The last evidence of tornadic damage was along Brooksville Chatham Road, where a barn was completely destroyed and some large sycamore trees were uprooted.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed in a warm and humid airmass.

Began near Powersville (38.6563, -84.1131).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1292216. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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