NWS Paducah confirms tornado touch-downs in Logan, Butler counties from March 15 storms

The National Weather Service in Paducah has confirmed that a brief tornado touched down in Logan and Butler counties during the March 15th weather event, causing some damage in the short time it was on the ground.

According to the damage survey, the EF-0 tornado touched down near Lewisburg at around 9:45 p.m. and traveled for less than a mile before lifting. It was determined to have a max width of 40 yards but with estimated peak winds of roughly 85 miles per hour. Damage was first observed along Forgy Road where some large softwood trees were either uprooted or snapped. Several trees were uprooted and a roof was taken off a storage outbuilding at a residence near Deer Lick Road.

That storm then traveled up into Butler County, where another EF-0 tornado was reported to have touched down south of Dimple, near Flat Rock Road. That spin-up stayed on the ground just shy of five miles, with estimated peak winds of 80 miles per hour and a max width of roughly 50 yards.

It destroyed a shed at a residence and shifted a mobile home on its foundation, though it thankfully did not overturn. The survey team found multiple instances of damage to trees and roofs, with portions of a roof from a different mobile home lofted about a ten-of-a-mile from the property. The tornado would lift in the Richland Church Road area.