Tornado in Kentucky, April 13, 1998

Name: Tornado in Kentucky, April 13, 1998
Start: 1998-04-13T22:13
End: 1998-04-13T22:23
Location: Kentucky

April 13, 1998 · NWS PAH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $200,000
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.

The radar

The Paducah radar (KPAH), 25 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:12 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Graves

When: April 13, 10:13 PM CST to 10:23 PM CST
Where: Graves County, Pottsville to Viola
Rating: F1
Path length: 7 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $200,000
Coordinates: 36.850, -88.720

A tornado caused considerable damage to residences, automobiles, and trees in an area roughly following Kentucky 408, north of Mayfield. Two vehicles were overturned. A mobile home was demolished. Several homes sustained damage to siding and roofing. An outbuilding was blown across a roadway. Large trees were blown down across Kentucky Route 945, blocking it for several hours.

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.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Kentucky in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Kentucky, 1998 Warnings in Kentucky, April 1998

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: 5643831.