EF0 tornado in Marshall County, Kentucky

The supercell which produced a funnel cloud in southeast McCracken County spawned a weak tornado in Marshall County near Sharpe. On Kentucky Highway 795, an old chicken coop was blown about 40 feet across a yard, and a few trees were down. Near the end of the damage track, a couple of cedar trees were uprooted, and another tree was snapped. In the same area, there was soffit damage to a house, and shingles were blown off an outbuilding. Peak winds were estimated near 75 mph.

Ahead of a strong cold front over southeast Missouri and southern Illinois, bands of showers and scattered thunderstorms developed over the Lower Ohio Valley. Surface dew points were in the 60's in the southerly flow ahead of the front. Afternoon heating of the moist air mass resulted in weak destabilization, with mixed-layer capes around 500 j/kg. Stronger wind flow aloft extended from central Arkansas northeastward to western Kentucky, where instability was maximized. A couple of the storms increased in intensity, showing occasional supercell characteristics. One such storm produced a weak tornado as it crossed northern Marshall County. A slow-moving band of heavy showers caused flooding in some of the typical problem spots near Paducah.