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EF0 tornado in Trigg County, Kentucky

Tornado October 18, 2007 · Trigg County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 were uprooted. The tornado occurred just south of Pryor Bay on the west side of Lake Barkley. This location is in the Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area, very close to the Tennessee state line. Peak winds were estimated near 80 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 Linton (36.6544, -87.9319).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Daviess CountyEF2 Daviess CountyEF2 Webster CountyEF2 McLean CountyEF2 Caldwell CountyEF2 Trigg CountyEF2 Christian CountyEF2 Hopkins CountyEF1 Caldwell CountyEF1 Hopkins CountyEF1 Trigg CountyEF1 Calloway CountyEF0 Daviess County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 59860. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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