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EF0 tornado in Calloway County, Kentucky

Tornado March 12, 2016 · Calloway County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
0.3 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$30K
Damage as recorded
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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

A National Weather Service damage survey revealed a brief EF-0 tornado struck the west side of the community of Midway. The tornado occurred along Highway 1828 and traveled about one-quarter mile northeast across U.S. Highway 641. On Highway 1828, approximately half of the roof was ripped off a single family residence, including the decking and some rafters. Small tree limbs were broken, and the underpinning was blown from a mobile home. Power lines were brought down. Peak winds were estimated near 85 mph.

The wider storm

A very short-lived, weak tornado touched down along U.S. Highway 641 between Murray and Hazel. The tornado formed within a line of thunderstorms (or quasi-linear convective system) that extended from north to south across western Kentucky. The storms moved through a marginally unstable air mass just south of a stationary front that was draped across the Lower Ohio Valley.

Began near Midway (36.5510, -88.3257).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 618525. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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