EF1 tornado in Calloway County, Kentucky

The tornado continued into Calloway County from Graves County. Trees were snapped or uprooted. Near the end of the damage track, a tree landed on a house. Many large tree branches were down. Three large pole barns were destroyed, and structural damage occurred to nearby houses, including roof damage. Vehicles were damaged. The tornado track ended only a few miles southwest of Murray. Peak winds in the Calloway County portion of the tornado were estimated near 100 mph.

A strong cold front moved through the region, preceded by numerous thunderstorms during the evening hours on December 5th and into the early morning on the 6th. Large hail, a few tornadoes, and an isolated damaging wind event accompanied the strongest storms. There were four tornadoes that touched down in the Tennessee border counties of western Kentucky. A loose clustering of storms and embedded supercells caused most of the severe weather in the evening. Overnight, the severe weather was mostly in the form of a convective line with embedded mesoscale circulations. The severe storm environment was characterized by weak instability but very strong wind shear.