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EF1 tornado in Calloway County, Kentucky

Tornado February 5, 2008 · Calloway County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$35K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

Peak winds were estimated around 95 mph. The average path width was 90 yards. One home received shingle damage. Two large windows were blown out of another home, with significant interior damage. Winds entered the attic, then blew out the interior ceilings. Sporadic tree damage was observed along the path length.

The wider storm

A deepening low pressure system moved northeast from Arkansas along a warm front that extended across southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. Surface dew points were in the upper 50's to lower 60's along and southeast of the warm front. A strong upper level trough over the western Plains produced a strong southwest flow of 60 to 80 knots at 500 mb. Winds at 850 mb were south to southwest around 40 knots.

Began near Pottertown (36.6384, -88.1571).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Muhlenberg County 3 deadEF2 Christian CountyEF1 Trigg CountyEF1 Trigg County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 76632. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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