Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Center
27.03.2017 · Center · Kentucky · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
0,48 km
Max. width
0,091 km
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,091 km
- Damage track length
- 0,48 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_January_to_March_2017#March_27_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Metcalfe
- Position
- S of Center
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu open externally
Source
Quelle
mesonet.agron.iastate.edu
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
Two large barns and a small outbuilding were destroyed, the roof was ripped off one home, and the front porch of a nearby house was raised, detaching its supports. An automotive repair shop was shifted slightly off its foundation, with damage to the roof and two doors blown. Numerous vehicles near the shop were damaged, including the cab of a pickup that was crushed. An RV was blown into a utility pole, and several other vehicles had their windows broken.
Key facts
- Date
- 27.03.2017
- Time
- 18:05:00
- Location
- Center
- Region
- Kentucky
- Country
- United States
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