Tornadoes are unpredictable and can strike at any time. This course provides essential tornado awareness, shares insights from a rare and significant tornado event, and offers recommendations for improving future disaster responses. Participants will benefit from perspectives from the course instructor who responded to the disaster.

This course will discuss:

Tornado Facts and Data

  • Where, when, and how tornados happen

  • The Enhanced Fujita Scale

  • Watches, warnings, and tornado emergencies

Information about the Western Kentucky Tornado

  • Facts of the disaster

  • The scale of the emergency

Photos to Show the Depth of The Destruction

Law Enforcement Response to The Disaster

  • Response dangers to tornadic events

  • Deployment to the area of operations

Challenges and Difficulties to Law Enforcement Response


Tornado Destruction. A law enforcement case study