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EF1 tornado in Meade County, Kentucky

Tornado February 5, 2008 – February 6, 2008 · Meade County, Kentucky

EF1
Rating
6.5 mi
Path length
350 yd
Path width
$2.0M
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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

The tornado caused extensive tree and power line damage near Happy Ridge Road, Wood Dale Road, and Maple Grove Drive. Several businesses were damaged in the Broadway and Lakeview Drive area. A cinder block storage building was toppled. The tornado knocked down the exterior wall of another building. A storage building was lifted up and thrown across Broadway. The Old Brandenburg Telephone Company Office had roof damage. A church was damaged near the intersection of Broadway and Highway 933.

The wider storm

A cold front along with a strong upper level low produced a squall line that crossed central Kentucky. This set off widespread severe weather, and spawned several tornadoes.

Began near Sirocco (37.9615, -86.2713).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 78169. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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