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F1 tornado in Calloway County, Kentucky

Tornado November 15, 2005 · Calloway 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

The tornado clipped the northwest corner of Calloway County as it passed from Graves County into southwest Marshall County. The strength of the tornado was still relatively weak, with mainly tree and outbuilding damage.

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 Backusburg (36.7333, -88.4833).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5479437. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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