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EF0 tornado in Webster County, Kentucky

Tornado March 14, 2019 · Webster County, Kentucky

EF0

Rating

2.3 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$1K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

The tornado was captured on video near its beginning. A television antenna tower near a home was knocked over. Otherwise, damage was limited to disturbed corn stubble in agricultural fields along U.S. Highway 41 north of Slaughters. Peak winds were estimated near 70 mph.

The wider storm

A strong low pressure system produced multiple weather hazards. Scattered supercell thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front on the morning and early afternoon of the 14th, producing isolated wind damage, large hail, and several tornadoes. The supercells were preceded by widespread rain and thunderstorms the previous night, which caused some pockets of flooding in western Kentucky. The low pressure center tracked northeast across the Plains to the Great Lakes region.

Began near Slaughters (37.5040, -87.4958).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Carlisle County EF1 Union County EF0 Graves County EF0 Henderson County EF0 Webster County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 805914. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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