Tornado, Barren
- When
- January 24, 6:40 PM EST to 6:50 PM EST
- Where
- Barren County, Glasgow
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 600 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $1.8 million
- Coordinates
- 36.980, -85.900
Tornadoes in Kentucky, January 24, 1997
An F2 tornado swept a 500-600 yard 7 mile path from just south of Glaskow to the small town of Wisdom, 5 miles west of Edmonton. The tornado damaged over 40 homes and several mobile homes.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $1.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS LMK wrote it up.
An F2 tornado swept a 500-600 yard 7 mile path from just south of Glaskow to the small town of Wisdom, 5 miles west of Edmonton. The tornado damaged over 40 homes and several mobile homes. 2 people were injured including one seriously in a mobile home 1 mile southeast of Glaskow along Highway 90. One $275,000 home had its middle section completely destroyed. In addition, many large trees were downed in a convergent pattern. Residents and county DES said quarter to half a dollar size hail preceded the tornado by only seconds. Total damage was estimated at 2 million dollars.
The radar
The Nashville radar (KOHX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:38 UTC.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Metcalfe
- When
- January 24, 6:50 PM EST to 6:54 PM EST
- Where
- Metcalfe County, Wisdom to 2 mi of Wisdom
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 500 yd
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -85.730
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5587053, 5587054.