Tornado, Russell
- When
- March 28, 8:50 PM EST to 9:10 PM EST
- Where
- Russell County, Jamestown to 5 mi NE of Jamestown
- Measured
- 60
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Coordinates
- 36.980, -85.150
Tornado in Kentucky, March 28, 1997
An F0 tornado touched down just inside the western part of the county line along Highway 55 and then moved northeast across Middletown and to the Half Acre community about 1 mile south of the Cumberland Parkway. A business was destroyed, two garages were heavily damaged, 10 houses had light to moderate roof damage, one storage building was damaged, three mobile homes were damaged and one…
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.0 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 F0 tornado touched down just inside the western part of the county line along Highway 55 and then moved northeast across Middletown and to the Half Acre community about 1 mile south of the Cumberland Parkway. A business was destroyed, two garages were heavily damaged, 10 houses had light to moderate roof damage, one storage building was damaged, three mobile homes were damaged and one destroyed. In addition, several signs, trees, utility poles and fences were down, and a vehicle was overturned.
The radar
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:49 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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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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: 5597255.