Tornado touches down Thursday in Greenup County

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GREENUP COUNTY, Ky. (WSAZ) - The spring storm pattern this week had been mainly non-severe until Thursday evening when a brief tornado touched down in western Greenup County Kentucky.

Showers and thunder squalls passed the region from 5 through 9 p.m. with pockets of heavy rain and a few wind gusts. When the storm line moved into Greenup County, it created a spike in energy return on Doppler radar. At that point a brief twisting motion in the winds around the parent thunderstorm spun up a short-lived tornado. The funnel touch down lasted only a few minutes along an eight-tenths a mile (8 city block) path.

Like so many twisters, this one retreated to the sky quickly but left behind a small swath of damage.

Here is the official storm survey report from the National Weather Service in Charleston:

https://www.weather.gov/rlx/20220526_greenup_tor