HODGENVILLE, Ky. — The National Weather Service in Louisville said an EF-1 tornado touched down in LaRue County during severe weather Thursday night.
NWS said a preliminary survey showed damage from an EF-1 with peak winds of 100 miles per hour. LaRue County dispatch said the tornado may have touched down in a four-mile stretch from Carter Brothers Rd. and Shepherdsville Rd. to Spencer School Rd.
In addition to confirming the tornado touch down in LaRue Co., NWS confirmed that a EF0 tornado touched down in Grayson County as well.
The NWS confirmed that a very quick and short lived tornado touched down for close to two minutes with winds up to 65 mph Thursday night.
The heaviest of damage was found around Donnie Nunn's home in LaRue Co. His roof was torn off, a barn and silo destroyed. His granddaughter, Kellee Cundiff lives just down the road.
"They said it was just like a train, sounded like a train and it just hit," Cundiff said. "My heart just stopped, because this is where I grew up at, and where we spend every weekend at, and it's just been awful. Luckily, after everything calmed down and we were safe to come out, we came up here, and there was already so much help. My family is so grateful."
Neighbors from a mile away, watched debris fly into the air.
"My front door was shaking, wind was blowing through it," Johnny Ball, a neighbor on Dan Dunn Rd. said. "I sat there and asked the good Lord to take care of me and make it through, and it went through quick."
Some had more damage than others. By mid-morning, most residents along Slack Rd. were checking on one another.
As of 8 a.m. Friday, no injures have been reported in connection with this storm. The severe weather has moved out of the area and weather conditions are expected to be much quieter through the weekend.
Just north of Hodgenville, several buildings and silos were damaged overnight. There were some reports of houses losing roofs and fallen trees. Crews were also seen moving debris out of the roadway to work on damaged utility poles.
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The storm that moved through Kentucky was part of a system that left five people dead in Alabama and Georgia Thursday afternoon. Multiple twisters sprang from a “super cell” of storms, said John De Block, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Birmingham.
Kentucky was under a moderate risk of severe weather potential Thursday evening as the storm system moved through.
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