EF0 tornado — Trigg County, Kentucky

EF0 tornado in Trigg County, Kentucky

Tornado July 4, 2009 · Trigg County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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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

This brief, weak tornado touched down in the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area. Several tree limbs and tree tops were downed. The peak wind was estimated near 70 mph.

The wider storm

Western Kentucky was located in the destabilizing warm sector of a surface low across northern Missouri. Mixed layer CAPE values at or above 1000 j/kg aided thunderstorm intensification as large scale lift was maintained ahead of the surface low. Deep-layer wind shear on the order of 40 to 50 knots contributed to persistent rotating updrafts. A few tornadoes occurred with rotating storms that crossed a warm front draped across southern parts of western Kentucky.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 175384. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Trigg County, Kentucky

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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