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EF1 tornado in Oldham County, Kentucky

Tornado April 28, 2017 · Oldham County, Kentucky

EF1

Rating

1.3 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 tornado developed in a new subdivision in Goshen, KY. The tornado traveled along a 1 mile path to the ENE. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along the path. A couple of houses and two church buildings sustained roof damage. Power lines and power poles were downed along the path as well.

The wider storm

An unseasonably warm and humid air mass developed across the lower Ohio Valley during late April 2017. A powerful weather system across the central Plains brought several rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms over the 3 day period. Large hail, damaging winds, and flash flooding occurred. A brief EF-1 tornado occurred in Oldham County late in the evening on April 28, damaging several homes.

Began near Harmony Vlg (38.3970, -85.5960).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 683323. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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