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EF0 tornado in Calloway County, Kentucky

Tornado July 3, 2016 · Calloway County, Kentucky

EF0
Rating
0.4 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph. A couple dozen trees or tree limbs were blown down. Shingles were blown off a couple of homes, and a door was blown off a well house.

The wider storm

Multiple clusters of thunderstorms intensified during the heat of the day along and south of a warm front that arced over far southern Illinois and across southern Kentucky. The storms occurred ahead of an upper-level disturbance over eastern Missouri. A belt of stronger west-southwesterly winds aloft associated with the disturbance was sufficient for organized updrafts. A few embedded small-scale bow echoes and transient supercells were associated with isolated wind damage and a brief tornado. The severe weather event morphed into a heavy rain event during the evening hours, causing damaging flash floods in a few counties.

Began near Coldwater (36.6692, -88.4163).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 638383. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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