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EF1 tornado in McCracken County, Kentucky

Tornado June 2, 2014 · McCracken County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
1.5 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

This EF-1 tornado contained peak winds estimated near 90 mph. A pole barn sustained substantial roof damage, including some structural damage to the rafters. Debris was blown more than one-half mile away. One home sustained loss of a large section of shingles and the roof vent. Dozens of trees and tree limbs were also blown down. The damage began just southeast of the corner of U.S. Highways 62 and 68 and continued south-southeast to Highway 68 along the McCracken/Marshall County line.

The wider storm

Scattered thunderstorms occurred immediately ahead of a weak shortwave trough over northeast Arkansas and eastern Missouri. The storms were fed by a moist southwest wind flow ahead of a weak cold front over western Missouri. An isolated short-lived tornado occurred with one of these storms. Flash flooding occurred in the city of Paducah.

Began near Reidland (37.0083, -88.5071).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 516620. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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