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EF0 tornado in Graves County, Kentucky

Tornado June 19, 2015 · Graves County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
1.8 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$4K
Damage as recorded
$5K
Crop damage
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Several trees and tree limbs were blown down. Swaths of corn and wheat were blown down in farm fields. The tornado began along Kentucky Highway 80 near Farmington, then moved northeast across Highway 564. Peak winds were estimated by a damage survey team near 75 mph. The average path width was about 75 yards.

The wider storm

Rain bands associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill produced isolated tornadoes and locally strong winds. The convective character of the bands increased during the afternoon due to short intervals of sunshine that destabilized the atmosphere. The surface low pressure center that constituted the remnants of Bill was located over the extreme southeast corner of Missouri during the afternoon. Rain bands rotated northward across western Kentucky ahead of the low pressure center.

Began near Farmington (36.6765, -88.5190).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 578658. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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