EF1 Tornado — Allen, Kentucky

2019-06-21 · near Amos, Allen, Kentucky

Event narrative

The National Weather Service conducted a storm damage survey across southeast Allen County to assess damage from the storms on Friday Evening, June 21. There was a significant amount of straight line wind damage across southern Allen County. Most of this damage had wind speeds between 60-65 mph all facing east southeast direction. There were two significant areas of straight line wind damage. There was a barn north of Amos on Highway 99. The second was two large barns just north of Hayesville, TN.

Interspersed among the straight line wind damage was a tornado which first touched down a half mile east of Amos. A family farm had numerous trees twisted, snapped, and uprooted. Several barns sustained severe structural damage to the roofs. A dozen or so portions of two by fours were impaled into the ground in multiple directions.

Further southeast on Highland Church Road numerous trees were uprooted and snapped with trees facing from the north northeast to the southeast direction. There was clear evidence that the tornado went to the Tennessee state line in Macon County as we could see trees snapped and uprooted on the state line which correlates well with the NWS Nashville storm survey across the Macon County line.

At 2592 Highland Church Road (Highland General Baptist Church) there was significant brick damage on the west, south, and east sides of the church due to open vents. The survey crew zig zagged across roads south of Scottsville to Highway 31 but only found sporadic straight line tree and barn damage all facing a southeasterly direction.

The very last concentrated area of damage the team found was at 444 Old Buck Creek Road were there was numerous softwood tree damage at the residence with power poles down across the road.

Wider weather episode

A large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) formed over Missouri early in the day. By evening, a line of severe storms had made its way into Kentucky and sounthern Indiana. This line continued south and southeast through Kentucky causing widespread damage and a loss of life. In the end, 3 tornadoes were confirmed with many other reports of downed trees, severe hail, property damage, and power outages.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 841526. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.