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F1 tornado in Ohio County, Kentucky

Tornado April 28, 2002 · Ohio County, Kentucky

Rating

9.5 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$500K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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

On Shrull Lane west of Centertown, a mobile home and several outbuildings were destroyed. There was intermittent damage across extreme western Ohio County. There was structural damage to 16 homes in Hartford. Roofs were off some homes. Mobile homes were picked up and twisted.

Began near Centertown (37.4167, -87.0833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Breckinridge County 1 dead F1 Hardin County F1 Edmonson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5291756. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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