EF0 tornado — Hickman County, Kentucky

EF0 tornado in Hickman County, Kentucky

Tornado April 28, 2014 · Hickman County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$2K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

Large tree limbs were blown down by this brief tornado. The tornado crossed Highway 58 on the east side of Fulgham and dissipated about a minute later. Peak winds were estimated near 85 mph. This tornado was produced by the same mini-supercell that spawned the EF-2 tornado near Union City, Tennessee and Fulton, Kentucky.

The wider storm

A couple of isolated tornadoes occurred with a mini-supercell thunderstorm as it tracked across southwest Kentucky. A mid-level disturbance supported the development of storms in a region where sunshine heated and destabilized the atmosphere ahead of a cold front. The cold front was approaching the Mississippi River as the storms developed. The storms intensified as a low-level jet supported an influx of warmer and moister air. Despite marginal instability, the presence of 60 to 80 knots of deep-layer bulk wind shear supported isolated supercells.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 508188. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Hickman County, Kentucky

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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