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EF1 tornado in Todd County, Kentucky

Tornado November 22, 2025 · Todd County, Kentucky

EF1

Rating

1.6 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

An EF-1 tornado (with peak winds of 98mph) began north of Guthrie where several trees were snapped. The narrow tornado moved east across open fields where it flipped a pivot irrigation system. It destroyed a small outbuilding and damaged other smaller buildings nearby. Several power poles were snapped along US-79 and the intersection of US-79 and KY-848.

The wider storm

Southerly flow in the warm sector on the 21st allowed for warm moist advection with dew points reaching the lower 60s in portions of Western Kentucky near the Tennessee border. A line of storms developed moved through Western Kentucky in the late evening hours through just after 0000CST on the 22nd. The storm line was mainly oriented WSW to ENE along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, but the leading edge turned more northerly. At that surge point, a cell on the Kentucky side produced off and on mesocyclone activity as it tracked from Calloway to Todd Counties. A brief tornado formed in Todd County north of Guthrie damaging trees and multiple outbuildings. MLCAPE was limited at a few hundred J/kg while effective bulk shear rose to around 45kts at midnight.

Began near Guthrie (36.6745, -87.1781).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1299509. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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