EF1 tornado in Ballard County, Kentucky

The tornado touched down near Lovelaceville in Ballard County, but the vast majority of the track was in McCracken County. This tornado uprooted and snapped several trees before it crossed into McCracken County. The tornado crossed U.S. Highway 62 near the south edge of Lovelaceville. Peak winds in Ballard County were estimated near 100 mph. This was the third and longest of three tornadoes that occurred along a path from western Carlisle County to McCracken County.

Clusters of thunderstorms formed over western Kentucky early in the afternoon. Several of these storms produced large hail or damaging wind. However, the main event was a line of severe thunderstorms that entered southeast Missouri about mid-afternoon and then tracked east across western Kentucky late in the afternoon and early in the evening. Several EF-1 tornadoes were associated with this line, in addition to scattered pockets of wind damage. The storms occurred under a rather strong southwest wind flow ahead of a weak cold front over far western Missouri. A 500 mb shortwave trough over the western high Plains provided some additional support for the storms. The air mass was strongly unstable, with surface capes over 3000 j/kg.