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EF0 tornado in Hancock County, Kentucky

Tornado June 21, 2026 · Hancock County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

3.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 tornado started just to the east of Hawesville near Highway 60 and 3199. The tornado continued east, virtually hugging the shore of the Ohio River and likely going into the Ohio River briefly before coming back on shore and doing more damage along Wescor

Road. Most of the damage noted was tree damage along this over 3 mile path.

The wider storm

On the night of June 21st, 2026 and into the early morning of June 22nd, 2026, a Mesoscale Convective System moved through southern Indiana and northern Kentucky. This system brought multiple lines of storms and some supercells. Several tornadoes occurred along with flash flooding.

Began near Hawesville (37.8950, -86.7494).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Breckinridge County EF0 Breckinridge County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1355825. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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