EF0 tornado in Graves County, Kentucky

Peak winds in this short tornado near Golo were estimated near 85 mph. The most concentrated damage was on County Road 564, where a small wooden storage shed was demolished and 8-inch branches were broken. Debris from the shed was thrown up to 90 yards. Three large pine trees were snapped about 15 feet from their bases, and one large pine tree was uprooted. There was strong evidence of convergent wind damage where the trees were blown down.

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.