EF2 tornado in Livingston County, Kentucky

The tornado touched down in a very rural area along Highway 763, just north of Dyer Hill. Near the end of the damage track, a well-built two-story home was moved off its basement foundation. All basement walls were cracked, and water lines were broken. This is where the tornado reached its peak intensity of 125 mph. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted. Four vehicles were destroyed. One vehicle was rolled 50 feet. A few outbuildings were destroyed.

Clusters of strong to severe thunderstorms moved eastward out of southern Illinois and southeast Missouri. The storms produced four tornadoes over the far western counties of Kentucky before weakening as they moved east across the Kentucky Lake region. The most significant tornado, which occurred over Livingston County, was rated EF-2. The severe storms occurred ahead of a cold front that accelerated east-southeast toward the lower Ohio Valley. Cooling aloft ahead of a shortwave trough over the Plains, combined with diurnal heating and moist southerly winds, resulted in a corridor of convection ahead of the front. The storms weakened somewhat as they moved east across the Kentucky Lake region into slightly drier and more stable air.