Power Outage in Leitchfield, KY

Scattered power outages, tree damage, and roof damage due to high winds occurred across Grayson County. A 64 mph wind gust was observed at Mesonet station AV189 Leitchfield.

This tornado is a continuation of the western Kentucky (Mayfield) tornado and will go down as the longest continuous tornado track on record in the Commonwealth of Kentucky at 163 miles (plus another two miles in Tennessee). This tornado developed in Obion County, Tennessee near Woodland Mills Road before tracking to the northeast through western Kentucky and on into central Kentucky (see Storm Data from the Memphis, Tennessee and the Paducah, Kentucky offices for more information on the beginning portion of this tornado). The tornado finally came to an end in Grayson County, Kentucky at Rough River Dam State Park. This is the fifth of five segments of this tornado in the Louisville, Kentucky County Warning Area. The tornado travelled another 1 mile to 1.5 miles to a large boat storage facility on the Falls of Rough Road. The boat facility was heavily damaged due to winds easily tearing apart open boat storage structures. Large debris from these structures was scattered 300 yards across Falls of Rough Road and a runway. Power lines were also taken down along Falls of Rough Road. Damage ended just shy of the Rough River Dam Resort State Park on the western Banks of Rough River Lake.

Nearly 4,000 customers lost power after ice brought down trees and power lines.

Downburst winds gusted to as high as 85 mph in a one-half mile by one-half mile swath of winds centered on Kentucky Highway 259 4.2 miles north of Leitchfield, KY. The winds destroyed a small barn, peeled metal roof panels from two other buildings, and overturned an RV. The winds also uprooted and snapped the trunks of several trees, and debris blowing into power lines helped snap four utility poles.

The county emergency manager reported numerous limbs downed with sporadic power outages due to icing. Between one quarter and one third of an inch of ice accumulated on elevated surfaces.

An NWS storm survey confirmed that an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of 75 mph touched down just south of Danny Sadler Rd. The tornado was on the ground for less than a minute and it was a secondary circulation just south of the parent tornado. Trees were snapped and uprooted along its path and power lines were blown down.

An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado began at the Butler/Grayson County line just north of Dog Creek Road and ended near the intersection of J. D. Hudson Road and Coats Road. Winds reached 100 mph along its 3 mile long and 125 yard wide path. The storm cut a very narrow path through trees immediately west of KY 79 near Gracie Lane, with a number of trees snapped and uprooted. One of the trees along Gracie Lane fell on power lines, tearing them down. Metal roofing on a barn was blown off and pushed a few hundred yards downwind into the woods. A small well-constructed shed was pushed over onto its side, and another small shed was destroyed. In addition a nearby house had its metal roof blown off. The tornado may have begun to skip intermittently through some woods east of KY 79 as only a few trees lost some limbs near the intersection of Delmar Lindsey Lane and Lawrence Hayes Road. However, just to the east of this location, along Coats Road, a metal outbuilding was destroyed consistent with EF-1 damage.

An NWS storm survey confirmed an EF-1 tornado began at the Butler/Grayson County line just north of Dog Creek Road and ended near the intersection of J. D. Hudson Road and Coats Road. Winds reached 100 mph along its 3 mile long and 125 yard wide path. The storm cut a very narrow path through trees immediately west of KY 79 near Gracie Lane, with a number of trees snapped and uprooted. One of the trees along Gracie Lane fell on power lines, tearing them down. Metal roofing on a barn was blown off and pushed a few hundred yards downwind into the woods. A small well-constructed shed was pushed over onto its side, and another small shed was destroyed. In addition a nearby house had its metal roof blown off. The tornado may have begun to skip intermittently through some woods east of KY 79 as only a few trees lost some limbs near the intersection of Delmar Lindsey Lane and Lawrence Hayes Road. However, just to the east of this location, along Coats Road, a metal outbuilding was destroyed consistent with EF-1 damage.

Tree limbs were reported down along with scattered power outages.

A Spotter reported trees and power lines downed around the Clarkson area.

Trees and power lines were downed.

Winds ripped the roof off a self serve car wash. Trees and power lines were also downed.

Power lines were downed in Leitchfield.

A winter storm dropped about three to six inches of sleet and snow over the area. Some structural damage was reported, mainly to outbuildings and service station canopies. About 3300 residents were without power for some period of time.