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EF0 tornado in Ohio County, Kentucky

Tornado April 27, 2026 · Ohio County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
1.9 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

A tornado briefly touched down and affected all trees in sparsely populated locations of western Ohio County. The tornado touched down just south of Locks Road and did tree damage along a nearly 2 mile track through the Rough River Valley.

The wider storm

On April 27th, as a low pressure system moved east towards the Lower Ohio Valley, the system's warm front brought a line of convection east along the Ohio River and Interstate 64. This produced widespread wind damage with limited flash flooding across north central Kentucky. On April 28th, the system's cold front dropped southeast, bringing a line of thunderstorms through central Kentucky. This produced additional wind damage and multiple small tornadoes.

Began near Heflin (37.4962, -87.0568).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Ohio CountyEF0 Hardin CountyEF0 Hart County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1336747. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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