EF1 tornado in Graves County, Kentucky

The tornado started just south of Kentucky Highway 1748, where it uprooted some trees. As the tornado continued northeast, tin from barn roofs was lofted about 100 yards into a nearby field. An unoccupied mobile home was moved about four feet from its foundation. The walls were gone, but the wood frame and roof remained. Trees nearby were snapped. Peak winds were estimated near 95 mph. The tornado lifted just as it reached the Purchase Parkway.

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.