Tornado Confirmed

Good Tuesday evening to all of you and thanks for stopping by the blog. Today we had a strong line of severe thunderstorms to move through the state of Kentucky and through our area of southeastern Kentucky as well. Several severe thunderstorm and Tornado warnings were issued just to our west and over here? Hardly any warnings were issued over here on our side of the state and we are the lucky ones.

A tornado was confirmed to have touched down in Jefferson County earlier today, here's the details on that: EF-1 Torndao with wind speeds of 95mph. The path length was 4.2 miles and the path width was 250 yards (2 1/2 Football fields wide) The tornado also touched down near Brownsboro Road.

A few other tornado warning were issued and they were for a few counties closer to home. Monroe, and Cumberland Counties were the two that were issued earlier. At the moment I do not know if those did produce tornadoes or not but I was told that earlier Local Law Enforcement had reported a tornado on the ground near Hickory Flat in Monroe County and that it was moving to the east at 60mph. Thats a fast moving tornado, but that is very common around here compaired to the ones that hit out west in tornado alley. The twisters out there normally doesn't move that fast but so do. Around here it's common that they pick up speed, yet no matter how fast they move they still do a good number of damage and it doesn't mean the tornado will be weaker, because it won't be.

We'll know more tomorrow if any more tornadoes will be confirmed.

Tonight temperatures will fall into the 20s for many and highs will struggle into the mid 30s. All eyes is on another system that looks to take aim in our area on Thursday into Friday. Some of the models have been saying a cold rain and some of the others have been calling for snow. For right now we're just going to say both are right just because we're still too far ahead to tell exactly what this thing is going to do. :)

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