EF1 tornado in Henderson County, Kentucky
Tornado March 28, 2020 · Henderson County, Kentucky
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Henderson County → Warrick County, Indiana; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado began on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, where it brought down several trees in the flooded bottomlands. The tornado spent the vast majority of its time in the Indiana county of Warrick, where it strengthened to EF-2 intensity at Newburgh.
The wider storm
Numerous thunderstorms formed ahead of a cold front during the late afternoon. Some supercells and bowing line segments were embedded within the large area of convection through the evening hours. A couple of tornadoes occurred in northwest Kentucky. The bowing line segments produced isolated wind damage. The atmosphere was only marginally unstable, with surface-based capes around 1000. Strong wind shear was favorable for the organized storm structures, including a few supercells.
Began near Wells Store (37.9372, -87.4181).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 875737. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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