EF1 tornado, Belleview to Erlanger, Kentucky, June 17, 2026

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

June 17, 2026

Touchdown

12:34 AM EDT (04:34 UTC)

Lifted

12:46 AM EDT (04:46 UTC)

On the ground

12 minutes

Path length

6.2 miles (10.0 km)

Path width

400 yards (366 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Boone and Kenton counties

Touchdown point

38.989, -84.702

Lift-off point

38.985, -84.587

Highest wind the damage implies

100 mph

Surveyed by

NWS ILN

The office's name for it

Florence KY

Survey last edited

June 21, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

The first evidence of the tornado was found on Landings Way where several trees were snapped at their trunks. Farther east, along Oakbrook Road near Pleasant Valley Road, additional tree damage was found along with minor damage to building fascia. The tornado proceeded east through residential areas of Oakbrook near Sentry Drive and Thunder Ridge Drive where a few larger hardwood trees were snapped and minor roof damage was noted.

The tornado progressed east, uprooting trees and snapping tree trunks along Hopeful Road, Surfwood Drive, and Rosetta Drive. The tornado then crossed Interstates 71/75 where it lifted a portion of the roof of one commercial building and caused additional roof damage to a second building. A large power pole was snapped near the intersection of US-42 and Dream Street and a local business had its sign destroyed. This is where the tornado is estimated to have reached peak intensity, with winds around 100 MPH.

The tornado then continued east into additional residential areas from here. Large tree limbs were downed along Hollywood Drive and there were numerous trees and large branches down along Ann Street, Lee Street, and Julia Avenue. The home near Ann Street had a large tree fall onto it, causing minor roof damage.

The tornado continued southeast, crossing into Kenton County, snapping several trees at residences along Autumn Road. The final known instance of tornadic damage was on Tallwood Circle, where multiple large branches were downed.

The National Weather Service would like to thank the Boone County, Kentucky Emergency Management Agency and the Kenton County, Kentucky Emergency Management Agency for their assistance and support with this damage survey.

Written by NWS ILN in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

52 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 130 mph.

• A few trees also blown down near complex (both softwood and hardwood).
• Ornamental Pear Trees blown down. Not EF-1 damage, so used large branches as the DoD.
• Multiple trees uprooted at this property. Several other trees had large limbs snapped from them.
• Several trees fell on camping trailers. Campers sheltered in underground shelter at pool

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Thunderstorms developed during the evening hours and continued into the overnight hours as a low pressure system moved through the Ohio Valley.

The tornado developed in Dearborn County, Indiana, at 2314EST on Texas Gas Road, about four miles east of Dillsboro. It moved east across Ohio County, Indiana, before crossing the Ohio River as it entered into Boone County at 2325EST. The last observed damage from this tornado was noted on Belleview Road, where large tree branches were snapped. The tornado quickly weakened and dissipated.

The first evidence of the tornado was found on Landings Way where several trees were snapped at their trunks. Farther east, along Oakbrook Road near Pleasant Valley Road, additional tree damage was found along with minor damage to building fascia. The tornado proceeded east through residential areas of Oakbrook near Sentry Drive and Thunder Ridge Drive where a few larger hardwood trees were snapped and minor roof damage was noted. ||The tornado progressed east, uprooting trees and snapping tree trunks along Hopeful Road, Surfwood Drive, and Rosetta Drive. The tornado then crossed Interstate 71/75 where it lifted a portion of the roof of one commercial building and caused additional roof damage to a second building. A large power pole was snapped near the intersection of U.S. Route 42 and Dream Street and a local business had its sign destroyed. This is where the tornado is estimated to have reached peak intensity, with winds around 100 mph. ||The tornado then continued east into additional residential areas. Large tree limbs were downed along Hollywood Drive and there were numerous trees and large branches down along Ann Street, Lee Street, and Julia Avenue. The home near Ann Street had a large tree fall onto it, causing minor roof damage. ||The tornado continued southeast, crossing into Kenton County, at 2343EST, just southeast of Florence. The tornado continued southeast in Kenton County before dissipating at 2346EST, along Tallwood Circle.

The tornado initially developed in Boone County at 2334EST, along Landings Way, about 1 mile southwest of Oakbrook. The tornado moved east and entered Kenton County at 2343EST, about 2.3 miles south-southeast of Erlanger. Several trees were snapped at residences along Autumn Road before the tornado dissipated on Tallwood Circle, where multiple large branches were downed.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

24 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 04:10 UTC, 24 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:47 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 02:13 UTC and running to 09:00 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 01:10 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Cincinnati / N Kentucky Intl (CVG), 7 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:32 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2026 tornado in KentuckyEvery tornado in Kentucky since 1950Warnings in force in Kentucky nowThe forecast where you are

27 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.