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F1 tornado in Graves County, Kentucky

Tornado November 15, 2005 · Graves County, Kentucky

Rating

44.0 mi

Whole path

275 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$8.6M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Graves County → Calloway County → Marshall County → Lyon County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 275 yards (0.16 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

This long-track tornado produced only light to moderate damage during the first nine miles of its track in Graves County. Some garages and outbuildings were damaged. Trees were blown down. The tornado first touched down near the South Highland Country Club. The tornado entered the northwest corner of Calloway County near Golo.

The wider storm

The total path length of the tornado across Graves, Calloway, Marshall, and Lyon Counties was 44 miles. Estimated time on the ground was 65 minutes.

Began near Mayfield (36.6833, -88.6333).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5479436. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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