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EF0 tornado in Jefferson County, Kentucky

Tornado October 18, 2007 · Jefferson County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

10 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 10 yards (0.01 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

The EF-0 tornado touched down briefly at a grocery store at 2200 Brownsboro Road. It blew out windows in the grocery and in a dry cleaners located in the same structure. A shopping cart corral was blown into a car, and a large power pole was blown down.

The wider storm

A cold front with strong upper level support collided with a very moist air mass over the lower Ohio Valley. The result was a widespread outbreak of severe thunderstorms, and six confirmed tornadoes. The storms produced property damage, downed trees and power lines, and large hail.

Began near Highlands (38.2581, -85.7044).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Breckinridge County EF2 Hancock County EF1 Meade County EF1 Bullitt County EF0 Marion County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 62337. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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