EF0 tornado in Hopkins County, Kentucky

Peak winds in this short tornado near White Plains were estimated near 80 mph. A barn was blown down. Part of a mobile home roof was blown off. The mobile home was moved less than five feet. Several small trees and large tree limbs were blown down. This tornado was spawned by the same supercell that produced an EF-2 tornado in northern Christian County earlier.

A surface cold front extended from the Chicago area southwestward across the eastern fringes of the St. Louis metro area to a weak low pressure center over southeast Missouri. The low ejected northeast across southern and eastern Illinois, with the trailing cold front moving east across the Lower Ohio Valley. A broken cluster of severe thunderstorms, with embedded supercells and small bow echoes, moved east-northeastward across western Kentucky. Increasing south-southwesterly low level winds brought plenty of moisture northward into the Lower Ohio Valley, aiding in sufficient destabilization for supercells. The two primary supercells of the night followed similar paths across southern parts of the Purchase area, the Lakes region, and the southern Pennyrile region. Heavy rainfall with the storms, in combination with saturated ground from the May 1 storms, produced localized flash flooding.