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F2 tornado in Livingston County, Kentucky

Tornado April 28, 2002 · Livingston County, Kentucky

Rating

22.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Injury

$440K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pope County, Illinois → Livingston County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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

This tornado crossed the Ohio River just upriver from Golconda, Illinois. It tracked eastward across northern Livingston County, over rural wooded and farm country. Many thousands of trees were blown down. Few structures were in the path of the tornado. A mobile home was destroyed, and at least a couple of farm buildings were damaged.

Began near Joy (37.3833, -88.4667).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5287494. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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