EF0 tornado in Graves County, Kentucky
Tornado April 18, 2013 · Graves County, Kentucky
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Graves County → Marshall County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
There was shingle and soffit damage to several homes. Several trees were snapped, and large branches were blown down. The average damage path width was 150 yards, and the peak winds were about 80 mph. The tornado moved into Marshall County near the community of Oak Level.
The wider storm
Small, low-topped thunderstorm line segments moved northeast in a region of strong vertical wind shear and very weak instability. These line segments produced a few short-track, weak tornadoes and isolated wind damage. The tornadoes formed from mesovortices embedded within the line. There was little if any lightning associated with the convection. The storms occurred along a cold front that extended southward from a low pressure center in northern Illinois.
Began near Symsonia (36.8578, -88.5200).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 439513. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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