National Weather Service Storm Survey Story
From the NWS Louisville office - "A National Weather Service Storm Survey Team has determined that an EF1 tornado struck downtown Paoli on Monday evening. The team is still evaluating the damage, but preliminary indications are that the tornado had a path length of roughly two miles, and a width of about 100 yards (with straight-line wind damage for about a mile either side of the tornado track). Wind speeds were probably around 95 mph."
This is the 61st tornado of 2011 in the NWS Louisville County Warning Area.
Here are the specifics on the Paoli Tornado:
Path Length: 1.95 miles
Path Width: 50 yards
Peak Wind: 100 mph
EF rating: EF-1
Begin Point: 38.553927 N, -86.479927 W
End Point: 38.562644° N, -86.446328° W
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The tornado spun up west of Star Field on the north side of Paoli school
complex, destroying a 100 year old barn and heavily damaging the roofs
of two other outbuildings. It then took a large section of roofing off
the Paoli Police Department building on West Main Street before snapping
several trees along Lick Creek as it moved east-northeast toward the
city square. On the square, the tornado ripped the metal roofs off of
Reflections Flower Shop and Liberty Furniture. Three chimneys of the
Orange County Courthouse collapsed, most likely when hit by roofing
debris. After crossing the square, the tornado continued moving
east-northeast another one and a quarter miles, snapping and uprooting
trees and causing minor roof damage to several homes. Near the end of
its path, the tornado spread debris from a metal outbuilding ,
extensively damaging a metal outbuilding one tenth of a mile onto North
Marshall Rd.
