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EF0 tornado in Breckinridge County, Kentucky

Tornado June 21, 2026 · Breckinridge County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
0.9 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 very brief, and likely intermittent tornado touched down near Heckman Lane. It hit an unoccupied mobile home head on, flipping it over and damaging some of the roof. It then traveled down a bluff, doing minor tree damage, before doing a little more substantial tree damage, including a tree snapped onto a home along Cook Ridge Road. The tornado then quickly lifted.

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 Mystic (37.8992, -86.4517).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Breckinridge CountyEF0 Hancock County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1355827. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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