EF0 tornado in Trimble County, Kentucky

An EF-1 tornado touched down on Willard Wilson Road in southern Trimble County. It descended from a supercell storm that earlier brought an EF-1 tornado to Clark County Indiana. This cyclic supercell tracked just to the south of, and 15 minutes behind, another supercell that produced the EF-4 tornado across southern Indiana. Shortly after touching down, the tornado destroyed a barn and a single-wide mobile home. Farther along Willard Wilson Road, another barn had collapsed. A 400 pound four-wheeler was moved 30 feet. Another home had shingle damage. The strongest winds, estimated near 100 mph, developed near High Grove Road. A concentrated grove of trees were destroyed along with downed power lines and a gutter ripped off a house. Finally, the twister downed some power lines and hardwood trees along Carmon Creek Road. It lifted just northwest of the intersection of State Highway 421 and Interstate 71.

A surface Low over Missouri early in the afternoon of March 2nd strengthened to below 990mb as it moved north into Michigan by the evening hours. Around dawn, a warm front moved north of the Ohio River. Scattered strong storms developed along this front across northern Kentucky, bringing several reports of dime sized hail. By mid afternoon, the combination of strong wind shear, temperatures rising to the upper 70s and over 2000 Joules/kg of CAPE led to the development of numerous supercells. Several of these storms produced tornadoes not only in north central Kentucky, but later in the evening across eastern Kentucky. Large hail was common, with several reports of baseball sized hail that damaged automobiles and roofs.