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F2 tornado in Crittenden County, Kentucky

Tornado April 28, 2002 · Crittenden County, Kentucky

Rating

22.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$16.9M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Crittenden County → Webster County → Hopkins County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 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

The tornado was spawned by a long-lived supercell that originated over southeast Missouri and tracked across southern Illinois and western Kentucky. This tornado, which was one of the strongest and longest-lived of the night, first touched down just inside Crittenden County on State Route 120. It quickly moved into Webster County. Before moving into Webster County, about a dozen homes and farm buildings were damaged in Crittenden County.

Began near Shadey Grove (37.3833, -87.8833).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5292583. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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