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EF0 tornado in Estill County, Kentucky

Tornado May 8, 2009 · Estill County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

21.4 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$15K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Garrard County → Madison County → Estill County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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

Abrief EF-0 tornado touched down on the west side of Sand Hill Road just north of Sand Hill and south of Lower Bend. The roof over the porch on one house collapsed when an uprooted tree fell on it. Two other homes and an outbuilding had roof or metal roof damage. The tornado was short lived and lifted prior to reaching the Kentuckky River around 525 pm.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms moved across portions of eastern Kentucky on the morning of May 8th; leaving in there wake downed trees and power lines and leaving thousands of people without power.

Began near Friend (37.7521, -84.0386).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 175714. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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