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EF0 tornado in Oldham County, Kentucky

Tornado June 26, 2018 · Oldham County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

3.5 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$550K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Jefferson County → Oldham County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

This tornado touched down at the entrance of Westport Woods Apartments in Jefferson County. After exiting the Forest Spring North subdivision, the tornado lifted briefly before dropping back down on the east side of Pewee Valley near Five Forks Drive. Near Manassas Drive a trampoline was thrown 60 yards and a large sycamore tree was uprooted next to an air conditioner that was thrown to the north. The tornado then increased in strength and uprooted several trees along Hawley Gibson Road. One resident lost twenty softwood and hardwood trees. The tornado lifted just east of Hawley Gibson Road, twisting several trees on a farm there.

The wider storm

On the second day of heavy rain across central Kentucky, a quasi-stationary boundary was draped across the area. Training storms across south central KY in the morning resulted in significant flash flooding. Strong to severe thunderstorms then developed during the late morning across east central KY. As these storms moved off to the east another round of storms moved in from the west in response to a system moving out of central Missouri. These storms resulted in many reports of wind damage as well as some additional flooding and flash flooding. Moderate shear contributed to an EF-1 tornado touching down in Louisville near the Ford truck plant.

Began near Frazertown (38.3022, -85.4994).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 757768. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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