Two tornadoes touched down in KY during recent severe weather, NWS surveyors confirm
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- NWS confirmed two tornadoes touched down in Kentucky during overnight storms.
- Surveyors classified an EF-0 in Hart County with winds near 80 mph.
- Surveyors classified an EF-1 in Ohio County with winds near 100 mph.
The National Weather Service has confirmed that two tornadoes touched down in Kentucky during a recent overnight severe weather event.
Tornado damage was confirmed in Hart and Ohio counties. The NWS also found straight-line wind damage up to 80 mph in Green County.
Surveyors in Hart County found damage that indicates an EF-0 tornado with maximum wind speeds near 80 mph touched down east of Millerstown.
Surveyors in Ohio County determined an EF-1 tornado with maximum wind speeds near 100 mph touched down northeast of Hartford.
Damage assessments are ongoing in Adair, Grayson, Oldham and Taylor counties, the NWS said.
Power outages across the state
Multiple rounds of overnight severe weather on Monday, April 27 to Tuesday, April 28 left thousands without power. Outages across the state were once above 20,000, but as of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, outages were down to 8,262, according to poweroutage.us.
More than 2,000 of the remaining outages were out of Jefferson County, according to poweroutage.us. LG&E & KU’s power outage map reported 875 outages in Fayette County, most of which are in the Zandale neighborhood, between Nicholasville Road and Tates Creek Road, in Lexington.
Power in that area was originally expected to be restored around 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, but the latest estimate now predicts restoration to happen around 4:30 p.m., according to the map. The outage left Glendover Elementary School without power, but Fayette County Public Schools spokesperson Miranda Scully told the Herald-Leader the school is operating on a normal schedule with the use of a generator.
Tornado warnings
The storms resulted in tornado warnings being issued for Adair, Bath, Bracken, Daviess, Grayson, Green, Hardin, Hart, Henderson, Henry, Hopkins, Larue, Mason, McLean, Ohio, Oldham, Pendleton, Robertson, Rowan, Shelby, Taylor and Webster counties during the storms, according to the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Fayette County was under a severe thunderstorm warning between 2:04 a.m. and 2:30 a.m., according to the Iowa Environmental Mesonet. There were two wind gusts of at least 40 mph reported in Fayette County around 1:50 a.m., according to the Kentucky Mesonet.
