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F0 tornado in Taylor County, Kentucky

Tornado May 23, 2000 · Taylor County, Kentucky

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The NWS survey team concluded that there was a sign of a circulation and that an F0 tornado had touched down briefly. A shed was destroyed. The siding on a house was damaged. A portion of a roof was blown off a commercial building.

Began near Burdick (37.2667, -85.3833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F3 Grayson County F0 Hart County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5151556. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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