EF0 tornado in Graves County, Kentucky

This weak tornado tracked across rural farm country between Wingo and Cuba. Mainly trees and large tree branches were down. There was damage to a few barns and a chicken house. Peak winds were estimated near 85 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.