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EF0 tornado in Hart County, Kentucky

Tornado April 28, 2026 · Hart County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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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 brief tornado touched down near Raider Hollow Road. It continued on the ground for roughly one mile, doing mostly tree damage along its one mile path.

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 Cash (37.4426, -86.0420).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Ohio County EF0 Ohio County EF0 Hardin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1336750. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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