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EF1 tornado in Daviess County, Kentucky

Tornado October 18, 2007 · Daviess County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
15.9 mi
Whole path
90 yd
Path width
$250K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

Numerous trees and a few structures were damaged. The average path width was 75 yards. Peak wind speeds were estimated at 95 mph.

The wider storm

The second and more significant severe weather outbreak of the day occurred as a cold front swept east across the Mississippi Valley. Scattered thunderstorms developed along and ahead of the front late in the afternoon. The storms organized into supercells and short lines during the evening. Over a dozen tornadoes occurred in western Kentucky.

Began near Owensboro (37.8365, -87.0359).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 59842. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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